pell-mell
Example Sentences
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“In its pell-mell rush to discharge patients, we are losing sight of them,” Short said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
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
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
The pell-mell plotting of “Interceptor” recalls the Onion parody interview with the excitable, 5-year-old screenwriter of “Fast Five.”
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
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.
