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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of helter-skelter
Adjective
The opening quarter-hour produced a fast but helter-skelter showing. The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2023 After a helter-skelter start, Mr. Vovk and his top managers reorganized. Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
Adverb
Meanwhile, the Nuggets showed their championship mettle in a helter-skelter win in the final seconds. Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025 The Knicks led a helter-skelter match 103-92 with just over eight minutes to go, but a 20-2 Detroit run over the next five-and-a-half minutes carried the Pistons to a seven-point advantage. Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 May 2025 For millions of employers around the country, the Trump administration's helter-skelter approach to imposing tariffs on key trading partners, along with just about every other country on the planet, has been challenging, corporate executives and small business owners have told CBS News. Alain Sherter, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025 The president’s approach to tariffs illustrates how his helter-skelter mind works. Nolan Finley, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025 With their helter-skelter, pressing style, the Grizzlies are a balanced team. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025 Somehow, with their final timeout unused, the Bears let the game’s final 32 seconds tick away with only one snap being taken — a helter-skelter, audibled deep shot from Williams to Rome Odunze that fell incomplete as time expired. Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024 And how did the home crowd react to their new manager after the often helter-skelter performances of Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp? Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024 The top row is fairly straight, just without the unnatural white hue of a modern Marvel star; the bottom row goes helter-skelter. Joel Kim Booster, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helter-skelter
Adjective
  • After a hurried recovery period in his upstate hospital, Dexter heads to New York City, where his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) has moved.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 July 2025
  • Here’s how Kansas and Missouri representatives and senators voted in the hurried push to pass President Trump’s massive, controversial spending bill.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • This behaviour can also be triggered by a random and undefined phrase or prompt.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Keppler notes that the 10-year time frame isn’t random.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
Adverb
  • As such, frantically searching for the best stretch-mark creams for pregnancy is a rite of passage for many mothers-to-be.
    Erin Bunch, Glamour, 9 July 2025
  • Like any worried parent, Green said his mom was frantically checking his location at all times of the day — even with a nine-hour time difference.
    Kairi Lowery, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The bus driver heard the commotion, pulled over and told everyone to get off.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 12 July 2025
  • Despite the commotion and all the onlookers, Monica does not recall anyone else trying to break up the altercation.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 12 July 2025
Adverb
  • The range of TVs included in the promotion includes everything from LG’s wildly popular G5 and C5 OLED TV series through to its latest QNED LCD TVs and even its esoteric 77-inch T4 transparent OLED model.
    John Archer, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Tyler Perry may be best known for creating and starring in the wildly popular Madea franchise, but his impact on Hollywood stretches far beyond the wig and glasses.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Getting pulled over and receiving a ticket can put a damper on a road trip in a hurry.
    Will McGough, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The slip-on design is ideal for getting through TSA in a hurry without worrying about tying your laces in the chaos of the airport, and they’re crafted with cushy foam insoles to enhance your comfort with every step.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • This momentary pause, this saving interruption of the headlong, breathless trajectory of rape or murder, admitted a kind of compassion, pity, even tenderness, halting injustice in its tracks.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • But swirling around it are immigration restrictions, headlong and haphazard reductions in Federal spending and a separate but related confidence shock weighing on consumer behavior.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There are no longer arbitrary divisions in which people say that different functions aren’t their job or concern.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Marylanders deserve a civil justice system that recognizes the full scope of human suffering and empowers citizen juries to render verdicts based on evidence rather than arbitrary limitations.
    Bruce M. Plaxen, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025

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“Helter-skelter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helter-skelter. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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