melee

Example Sentences

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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 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

Even as he spoke, others were filming the melee for TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times

By comparison, attacks by militant leftists are almost never deadly, according to attack records, and typically involve “melee violence” at protests rather than the premeditated mass shootings or standoffs carried out by the far right.

From Washington Post