Usage of "helter-skelter"

espanyol

Haphazardly.

Lacking a visible order or organization.

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With undue hurry and confusion.

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Sinònims

Examples for "pell-mell"

Examples for "pell-mell"

The overseer took horse within the hour and rode pell-mell to Matanzas. 
 Rainbow's End 

Across the road and through the barbed-wire fence he led them pell-mell. 
 The Dozen from Lakerim 

The gates opened, and we rushed pell-mell across the fields to safety. 
 Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill 

With a series of appalling yells the enemy turned and fled pell-mell. 
 The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont 

It is an indescribable pell-mell, with cries of terror and prolonged groans. 
 The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Race... 

Ús de helter-skelter en anglès

Immediately the whole band broke up and rushed helter-skelter in all directions. 
 Tom Tufton's Travels 

Tuesday begins a helter-skelter scramble to the finish, especially for the Republicans. 
 Radio NZ 

There was a good deal of her mother's helter-skelter explosiveness in her 
 The Rise of David Levinsky 

The shelves were stuffed with a helter-skelter collection of books and comics. 
 IT 

For an unguessable length of time this helter-skelter process occupied her mind. 
 The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix 

Two of the whippersnappers played pivotal roles in a helter-skelter first half. 
 BBC 

They set off wildly then, plunging helter-skelter into the silent, heartless wood. 
 The Extra Day 

Sometimes, but not very often, she threw them helter-skelter about the room. 
 The Good Soldier 

His helter-skelter, full-court, full-time intensity blurs the line between defense and offense. 
 The new yorker 

The lines of civilians were driven helter-skelter to cover-where , Idon'tknow. 
 A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium 

Here was another helter-skelter example, and the latest twist in Arsenal's impossible-to-script campaign. 
 The Irish Times 

The year of M&A helter-skelter makes this new madness somehow fitting. 
 Reuters 

In a helter-skelter second half the South Americans struck back twice. 
 The Guardian 

The children came in helter-skelter, tumbling over one another like so many puppies. 
 The Country Doctor 

Again are the gorgeous furnishings of the forty rooms thrown helter-skelter. 
 The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ... 

Nobody but he could have twisted and turned in such a helter-skelter fashion. 
 The Tale of Kiddie Katydid 

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Translations for helter-skelter

espanyol

Helter-skelter a través del temps

Significats de helter-skelter en anglès