pell

Example Sentences

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Twice each summer 10 horses and riders representing the various “contrade” or districts of the city run pell mell around a temporary clay track.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018

I want to use pell grants to help defray the living expenses that often make a difference, whether a young person can stay in school or not.

From Time • Nov. 14, 2015

You saw the morale of our men - everyone was fleeing pell mell.

From Reuters • Dec. 10, 2012

It’s a photo of a real person, for starters, which means it can and likely will be distributed across the Internet pell mell and willy nilly without its disclaimer.

From Salon • May 24, 2012

Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck