pell-mell

Example Sentences

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“In its pell-mell rush to discharge patients, we are losing sight of them,” Short said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

The court as a whole and the two concurrences hurtle pell-mell toward making it virtually impossible for plaintiffs like Mexico to successfully plead their claims.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

Projects include programming robots to take care of some of the routine aspects of nursing and providing extra training to nurses before they are thrown into the pell-mell of the hospital floor or busy clinic.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022

As projected here, amid masses of pell-mell archival material and TED Talk-style diagrams, the Tokyo Reels weren’t exactly meant to be watched.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

He ran pell-mell, snorting like a playground bully till he was one of the last of his kind left inside the circle.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver