Examples of 'pell-mell' in a sentence

Meaning of "pell-mell"

Pell-mell refers to a state of confusion or disorder, often used to describe a chaotic situation
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  • Hasty and uncontrolled.
  • In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly.
  • Alternative form of pall mall (“ball game”)

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A crowd of memories came back to me pell-mell.
Caps and buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine.
Do not just start cutting things pell-mell.
The Allied armies are in pell-mell retreat to avoid entrapment.
And there is the box of memories bu Pell-mell.
He fell pell-mell And that was it for the cop.
It 's a sort of a nightmare where your dreams go pell-mell helter skelter in a month.
In a disorganised pell-mell the cavalry finally closed on the Scots, on the right and left.
But I think this country is going pell-mell into fascism.
The Federals broke pell-mell into retreat with the Rangers in pursuit for several miles.
I am not gonna sacrifice what little army I have by charging pell-mell into Mexican lances.
Go pell-mell helter skelter in a month.
Will you rejoice when the Southern states have rejoined the Union pell-mell.
Men and objects fall pell-mell " into the dark abyss.
That 's why one must not rush into it pell-mell.

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Thus, waste is thrown pell-mell into the paths of some neighborhoods.
The entire process was pell-mell.
In his pell-mell retreat, the enemy has not even destroyed his equipment.
This is not some parlor trick to be used pell-mell or willy-nilly.
There will be pell-mell on the moor, wi'troops and horses moving to and fro.
The surface or external layers 3 and 4 are webs made on a pell-mell card.
There will be pell-mell on the moor, wi ' troops and horses moving to and fro.
The guns crash over the dead and wounded, strewn pell-mell on the ground.
Go pell-mell helter skelter in a month. It's a sort of a nightmare where your dreams.
A huge cauldron containing urban issues, industrial zones, rural areas and maritime facades, all pell-mell.
What? You are going to run pell-mell with me through the Nakatomi Building.
Will you rejoice, when the Southern states have re-joined the Union pell-mell as.
About the pell-mell assault on that airfield . Now I know some people are not happy Unacceptable!
Now I know some people aren't happy about the pell-mell assault on that airfield.
Which means we can't be sending people down there all willy-nilly. Pell-mell.
And run pell-mell.
This confusion is unprecedented . It 's all lumped together, pell-mell.
Les do it pell-mell.
That 's it . Which means we can not be sending people down there all willy-nilly . Pell-mell.
Let us do it pell-mell.
Join bravely, let us to it pell-mell.
He displayed his erudition, cited pell-mell cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.
Well, the US Supreme Court is going pell-mell to the right.
No, but it 's all lumped together, pell-mell People can still choose.

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