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pell-mell
adjective as in disordered
adverb as in hurriedly and carelessly
Example Sentences
He pointed to them and began to run pell-mell back to the border, and I followed.
For now, the momentum does appear to be firmly behind the rebel forces in the east and their pell-mell dash through the desert.
We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.
The scene beggars description; bags, bundles, bales, boxes are pitched out pell-mell.
Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.
Her first thought was of the rabbit, and she came running pell-mell across the garden to greet him.
Toby clapped both hands to his ears, and in a flash the red-headed girl seized Bumper in her arms and ran pell-mell from the room.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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