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Example sentences for "pellmell"

Lexicographically close words:
pellet; pellets; pellibus; pellicle; pellicles; pellucid; pellucida; pelo; peloric; pelota
  1. He hadn't no more nor got the words out of his mouth when Rau ripped out there was a canoe coming off, and we all ran pellmell for the rail.

  2. On they came, crimson-faced, mouths open, British and Americans in a pellmell rush like a rally of boys at football.

  3. The little president was forgotten in the pellmell rush, and from the height of her table she perceived her friends flying away without a word of farewell.

  4. They dart pellmell from their hiding places, chippering their protest, and when you examine the shock you find cozy nooks and ingles among the leaves and stalks, where they find couches and at the same time coverts from the sharp winds.

  5. Had our thoughts been otherwise employed, the condition of the pavement outside a house about a hundred and twenty yards down on the opposite side would have recalled them pellmell to our disappointment.

  6. A roar of laughter from me and long, tremulous wails of merriment from Jill brought my sister and Jonah pellmell upon a never-to-be-forgotten scene.

  7. Again the cavalry charged, driving men, women and children pellmell back a hundred yards from the building and, forming a yet wider circle around it, settled down to sit their horses like statues until the play should be ended.

  8. Twenty-two horses, gaunt, mutilated things, lay tumbled pellmell together in a vast heap.

  9. Those of his followers who had entered, turned quickly and made pellmell for the exit.

  10. And I still her priest--" Carmen came bounding in, followed pellmell by Cucumbra.

  11. Raging with disappointment at not finding the fugitives in the house, they threw the furniture and kitchen utensils madly about, punched great holes through the walls, and then rushed pellmell to the parish house next door.

  12. The main body of the Siriniris marched pellmell along with the porters, whom this vicinage made exceedingly uncomfortable, and who were perspiring in great drops.


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