melee

Example Sentences

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Police failed to bring the situation under control for hours — a melee former Chancellor Gene Block called a “dark chapter” in the university’s history.

From Los Angeles Times

Accompanying Hedda throughout is a choir of scooping notes, which by the film’s chaotic finale crescendo into a slightly horrific melee of wild vocals.

From Los Angeles Times

In the melee, the little bird fell off Lady Constance’s hat and disappeared somewhere in the nursery.

From Literature

In the ensuing melee, six people were killed and dozens wounded.

From Washington Post

When they left their car in the traffic to walk, they were caught up in a melee of people assaulting a Basij member, Amnesty International and a colleague of the doctor said.

From New York Times