How to Use pell-mell in a Sentence

pell-mell

adverb
  • What was pell-mell and excited becomes thoughtful and decorous.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Often, there is a pell-mell brawl before a new regulation takes effect.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • What could slow the pell-mell stock market advance of artificial intelligence?
    — Larry Light, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The first act has a visceral, terrifying sequence with panicky close-ups of extras sprinting pell-mell toward the car.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In a desperate attempt to avoid getting their fingers caught in the cookie jar, there is a pell-mell sprint toward finding a watermark removal app that can yank out the digital watermarks.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The sight of Musk swinging a chainsaw onstage at a conservative conference captured the pell-mell approach, not to mention the brutality, of the billionaire’s plan to bring the federal government to heel.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025

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