pell-mell in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for pell-mell in the English»French Dictionary

pell-mell [Brit pɛlˈmɛl, Am pɛlˈmɛl] ADV

pell-mell

pêle-mêle

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English

The pell-mell drilling of tens of thousands of wells has caused an inevitable natural-gas glut.

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No power on earth could stop the poor thirsty beasts; bellowing and lowing they ran pell-mell for the water, with the cowboys in hot pursuit.

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At first the battle was confined to the hill, all the armies gazing on it, so great were the numbers of cavalry from each host combating there pell-mell.

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And now the great adventure of that ferocious, pell-mell painting life has, quite abruptly, and quite frustratingly, been cut short.

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More recently, the miners abandoned strategy for a tactic of pell-mell production increases during the commodity price boom.

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Everything goes very pell-mell; and although vast quantities of harlots ply their trade there, the other females are not ashamed to dance in the same room as them.

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In the midst of all this pell-mell, he still relishes the drops of honey dripping from the honey comb with his tongue stretched out.

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This would have pleased him, this trajectory, speeding him from nowhere to everywhere, defining himself in this pell-mell, serendipitous way.

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Everything comes at you pell-mell, at a rush, sometimes blurrily blinking like neon signage - which is one of his obsessions.

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When this is pumped up into frenzy in the pell-mell of so-called debates on prime time and the chaotic world of social media, the yardsticks can go haywire.

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