pell-mell
Example Sentences
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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
On one level, “Infested” is a well-worn, thoroughly efficient creature feature with sleek effects and pell-mell pacing.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
It was pell-mell outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023
There, things shift into hyper drive: pell-mell running, whooshing through twisty pneumatic tubes, leaping onto floating brick roads — Mario is barely given time to catch his breath.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023
My most pressing problem, however, was not the pell-mell flow of words, but how to identify each speaker on the page.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
