[
US
/ˈpæsɪɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːsəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːsəl/ ]
NOUN
-
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market
How To Use passel In A Sentence
- This research subject is the sixth passel subject of code for design of concrete structure.
- A passel of kids of varying ages, the cousins love playing baseball in the front yard, romping on the beach just two blocks away, or exploring what's left of the Fort Tilden gun emplacements that overlook the Atlantic Ocean.
- But Pew Hispanic Center Senior Demographer Jeffrey Passel argues those numbers tell only part of the story.
- Henry and his second wife, that red-haired woman Joe could never quite warm up to, raised a passel of children.
- Three-fourths were privates and PFCs, which was not surprising because that was where a passel of temporary master sergeants and other senior NCOs landed when they reverted to permanent grades.
- These include epilepsy, fibromyalgia, various interesting respiratory things, a whole passel of cormorbid conditions piggybacking on the fibro, et cetera - but for the purposes of this meme, I'm going to focus on the epilepsy, as it's less common. Friday!
- Grandpa had taken a passel of us to a riverside swimming hole.
- Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King's game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend. Ivanhoe. A Romance
- The plot, such as it is, provides the excuse to present the most interesting, important and exciting results of computer science, as well as a passel of other ideas, in a readable and entertaining way, with a veneer of romance.
- Throw in halogen headlamps, front and rear stabilizer bars, anti-lock brakes (naturally) and a passel of other performance and appearance features (like the front-mounted intercooler for the turbo and an aluminum hood with a heat-extracting vent) and you've found one of the best bargains in the "boy racer" class. Steve Parker: Mitsubishi Motors: Just Who Are They, Anyway?