ADJECTIVE
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with undue hurry and confusion
a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause
a pell-mell dash for the train
ADVERB
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in a wild or reckless manner
dashing harum-scarum all over the place
running pell-mell up the stairs
How To Use pell-mell In A Sentence
- An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session.
- Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
- They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
- I ran pell-mell down the bleachers, forgetting about my supposedly sprained ankle, and grabbed the nearest fan. The Dark Side of Innocence
- Nobody scored more than the Bulgarian's 20 league goals last season, and his finishing is hallmarked by the composure that would surely have brought order to Saturday's pell-mell chaos. Manchester United lose killer instinct while Dimitar Berbatov waits
- Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
- a pell-mell dash for the train
- We are hunting venison, not hurtling pell-mell to our deaths!
- To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin. Little Women
- One of his French prisoners has escaped - and it pitches the unfortunate Jerrold into a pell-mell race across England in a pursuit that takes him from the stinking marshes of Chatham to the wilds of Dartmoor.
