pell-mell

Example Sentences

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The Iraq story makes clear that there’s a better way to resolve “endless” wars than the pell-mell evacuation in Afghanistan.

From Washington Post

Arriving in trickles and pell-mell retreats, several hundred soldiers have crossed the border, prompting Tajikistan to put them on flights back to Kabul.

From New York Times

China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.

From New York Times

Oversize graphic novels rest pell-mell on top of the neatly shelved, cooperatively sized trade paperbacks.

From Washington Post

Complaints about overwork and underpayment were common, as were accusations that regulatory oversight had thinned in a pell-mell effort to get planes into the air.

From New York Times