higgledy-piggledy

How To Use higgledy-piggledy In A Sentence

• The site occupies the corner of a somewhat higgledy-piggledy plaza dominated by a small, historic church.
• In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess. 2009 November « The Graveyard
• The tables were higgledy-piggledy, and the whole place was set out as if it had originally been as unlike a café as it was possible to be, and the owner had hastily attempted to correct this.
• Back in the 1990s a friend, tired of the usual fan's attempts to bring about victory for Middlesbrough using the paraphernalia of lucky clothing and the like and, to be honest, during the higgledy-piggledy reign of Bryan Robson even Imelda Marcos would have exhausted her wardrobe in pursuit of something that would halt a post‑Christmas slump, determined on what appeared a foolproof scheme – a retrospectively effective charm. The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson
• For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
• It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in. The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
• Everything within was crowded together higgledy-piggledy, each booth jammed up against its neighbor. KING OF DREAMS
• At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way. 50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room
• And these will not be urban conurbations like Mexico City or Lagos growing higgledy-piggledy, but cities designed to accommodate such enormous populations.
• Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.