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

It was pell-mell outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023

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

The inspiration goes back to visits in the 1980s to a storage facility for the British Museum where ethnographic objects were carefully labeled yet shelved pell-mell.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

Then she was simply racing pell-mell down the steps in pursuit of the rat, with no room in her mind for anything else, certain she was gaining on it.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman