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helter-skelter

How to use helter-skelter in a sentence

The rest of the folk go helter-skelter thither, the nose of one under the tail of the other; but you follow a wiser fashion.

These we filled with the remaining seedlings, helter skelter, just for a splash of colour, and watered from the brook itself.

When he sees anyone coming, he gives a yell that lasts a minute, and then the whole troop sets off helter-skelter.

Helter-skelter the men rushed out, Tony and his mates in front.

COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTT

But it is not only a matter of reaching a systematic instead of a helter-skelter enjoyment of 116 the offerings of the world.

In the confusion that followed the Wolves stampeded, running helter-skelter in all directions.

MIGHTY MIKKOPARKER FILLMORE

Lashing their horses they bore on toward him, dashing down the cut banks at reckless speed or clambering up them helter-skelter.

Then helter-skelter over the fields and hedges, stumbling, staggering, and traversing what I suppose to be miles of country.

In dismay the combatants spring helter-skelter up the rocks, and it goes roaring and thundering by, crushing many as it does so.

Similarly ambulance car-drivers could not join in the helter-skelter for security on the road to Fricourt.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985