Pell-mell (Adjective)
Meaning
With undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The kids ran pell-mell through the park, chasing after the ball and each other.
- In the chaos of the earthquake, people rushed pell-mell through the streets, desperate to escape the destruction.
- The news of the stock market crash sent investors scrambling pell-mell to sell their shares and cut their losses.
- The pell-mell pace of city life was exhausting, with everyone rushing to get somewhere and never stopping to smell the roses.
- The fire alarm went off and the students ran pell-mell out of the building, not stopping to grab their belongings.