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Example sentences for "mell"

Lexicographically close words:
meliorating; melioration; meliore; meliores; melius; mella; mellay; melle; mellifluous; mellow
  1. Down went the butts of earth, and pell-mell came our swords and pikes together, after our shot had first given their volley, even at the enemy's nose.

  2. The impressions of my first day crowd pell-mell upon my mind.

  3. Down the stairs pell-mell comes an elderly partner of the firm with a gold-and-purple crown on his head and after him follows the kindly Mr. F.

  4. Mr. Moore said: "The men got quite out of hand and fled pell-mell for the fort.

  5. The fugitives ran pell-mell towards the boats, which, had they not already been aground, would have been sunk by the numbers who crowded into them.

  6. For nearly a century they had been pell-mell at it, whenever and wherever they could meet.

  7. The' miller roared for assistance, but the pell-mell was going on too warmly for his cries to be available.

  8. Accordingly he stalked toward us, and with a violent push sent Cuthbert pell-mell on to me.

  9. The moose tracks fill our trail for a while, smashing it all to pieces, then veer sideways to a little patch of woods, and the dogs go pell-mell in the moose track, burying our sled out of sight in the deep snow.

  10. Many who have heard me relate the results of my experience have rushed off pell-mell to the same medium, perhaps, and came away woefully disappointed.

  11. The next morning he came pell-mell into my presence.

  12. At about six o'clock Jim Done and his mates were awakened and brought pell-mell from their bunks by the sound of a great commotion coming from the direction of the Chinese camp.

  13. The sight of the field of action set Jim's sinews twitching; he longed for the strife, and found some difficulty in restraining himself from running with the preceding party pell-mell on to the creek.

  14. At the close of the first day's travel, just as our hammocks had been swung, I heard a scream and saw the people of our own and neighboring huts snatching cups and glasses and running pell-mell toward the point where our animals were tethered.

  15. Pretty soon we came pell-mell into Kingston and I could see the circus posters in all the store windows and on the fences.

  16. Women were bowled over pell-mell and their shrieks and cries mingled with the hoarse, exuberant howls of the war-fever stricken maniacs already tasting the smell of powder and blood.

  17. We were turned out pell-mell and our baggage was thrown on to the embankment.

  18. No one was permitted to invade the new territory until a signal was given and then they were to rush pell-mell to secure the claim they found to be the most in accordance with their wishes.

  19. At the bottom the deep green river rushed pell-mell to the lower levels.

  20. She raised her arm sharply and pointed down the precipitous slopes to the green American rushing pell-mell down its rugged canyon.

  21. Gillenormand talked all sorts of nonsense about the marriage, and all the ideas of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell into his dithyrambs.

  22. And suddenly I was overjoyed to ride pell-mell upon R.

  23. I was offered a horse and lance, which seemed to surprise the whole party when I readily accepted the offer; for nothing ever pleased me better than a wild, pell-mell ride.

  24. They came on to the creek in a wild, pell-mell run.

  25. A seething mass of leaves and debris, where the old stems rise pell-mell one upon another; the whole of a muddy yellow colour, coated on the surface with a green frothy moss.

  26. The solid rocks are broken and crushed in sliding and converted into waste consisting, like that of talus, of angular unsorted fragments, blocks of all sizes being mingled pell-mell with rock meal and dust.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.