With undue hurry and confusion.
In a wild or reckless manner.
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Examples for "helter-skelter "
Examples for "helter-skelter "
1 Immediately the whole band broke up and rushed helter - skelter in all directions.
2 Tuesday begins a helter - skelter scramble to the finish, especially for the Republicans.
3 There was a good deal of her mother's helter - skelter explosiveness in her
4 The shelves were stuffed with a helter - skelter collection of books and comics.
5 For an unguessable length of time this helter - skelter process occupied her mind.
1 The overseer took horse within the hour and rode pell - mell to Matanzas.
2 Across the road and through the barbed-wire fence he led them pell - mell .
3 The gates opened, and we rushed pell - mell across the fields to safety.
4 With a series of appalling yells the enemy turned and fled pell - mell .
5 It is an indescribable pell - mell , with cries of terror and prolonged groans.
6 Transfixed, he listened as she explained her pell - mell race to find God.
7 It made everything easy at once, and her words came out pell - mell .
8 Every one started up, and hurried almost pell - mell towards the postern door.
9 I am afraid that things will go pell - mell when I am dead.
10 Palaces, geail, heroes and bounteous fairies disappear pell - mell into the lowest depth.
11 The gypsies were there pell-mell-men ,womenand children, horses, dogs and wagons.
12 Perhaps once, as a child, running pell - mell through these very waterfront streets.
13 The door crashed in and men poured pell - mell through the opening.
14 His ideas were thrown pell - mell into the white heat of a spontaneous revelation.
15 A breach once made in the wall, and events rush upon us pell - mell .
16 Seeing their comrade's mishap, the remaining recruits scrambled pell - mell out of the water.
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