(v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had started with a short field after Terrelle Thomas intercepted Terrelle Pryor, taking the ball back on a helter-skelter return which ended with the defender fumbling the ball at the Oakland five-yard line, only for officials to rule that he had been down by contact.
(2) Many Conservatives have become increasingly concerned that in the government’s helter-skelter pursuit of the referendum, they have been jettisoning or watering down key elements of their legislative programme.
(3) Local television station Somoy TV showed live footage of people running helter skelter moments after the blasts.
(4) House Democrats will gather for a conference in Baltimore next week, strategising a way forward for the party after Trump’s stunning election defeat of Hillary Clinton and the helter skelter start to his presidency.
(5) Somewhere amid this helter-skelter of a contest, a refreshing frenzy of offensive play and attacking intent from start to finish, Tim Sherwood delivered a politically shrewd statement of intent.
(6) But this is more than just another notch on London's priapic skyline – soon to see the addition of "the scalpel" and "the helter skelter" tower, which will overshadow the Cheesegrater as the tallest building in the Square Mile.
(7) Huge projects in Redcar have already been completed, including transforming sea defences, and the £1.6m Redcar Beacon, a helter skelter-like tower and business space on the regenerated seafront.
(8) An ethics game entitled 'Rights: Helter Skelter' has been used with nursing students in their first course focused on ethics and nursing.
(9) It was a crazy, helter-skelter game and one that was overshadowed by some calamitous refereeing from a man who was officiating only his fourth Premier League game.
(10) We literally dodged bullets … It was very helter-skelter for a while.” He said bullet holes were found on the headquarters’ second floor, the information desk, and in cars where officers had been sitting.
(11) In the course of a helter-skelter career, Gerwig has established herself as the poster girl for wayward, brittle middle-youth.
(12) A fortunate baby boomer, mine had been a life that was, I suspect, not so very different from the lives of any number of thirty- and fortysomethings in the West: hedonistic, heedless, happy-go-lucky, helter-skelter.
(13) Nicknamed the Helter Skelter, its internal layout was as inefficient as its billowing exterior was extravagant.
(14) outfits groove to Blondie by the original 1940s toy car circuit, and a magician enthrals a crowd by the helter-skelter.
(15) The boy's father runs a helter skelter and a bungee trampoline business but parks his caravan on family-owned land during the winter break.
(16) The 17 rides, evoking the old-fashioned fun of the traditional British seaside, include a replica helter skelter, a vintage pedal car roadway, a Wedgwood teacup ride, dodgems and a ferris wheel.
(17) Saudi investment in the tallest tower in the City of London – the Pinnacle , also known as the Helter Skelter – has also stalled.
(18) There is no knowing yet what the helter skelter of the next few days will throw up.
(19) The pitch was hardly pristine and Ireland had to acclimatise quickly during frenetic opening exchanges, when the pace and helter-skelter action gave the occasion a real cup tie feel.
(20) Manchester City v Arsenal: Premier League – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg Read more An illustration of the helter-skelter fare came when Fernando claimed the ball near the centre spot and sent it skimming towards Agüero, who burned off Laurent Koscielny.
Smelter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, smelts.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report summarizes the results of baseline neurologic testing in a group of apparently healthy workers from a secondary lead smelter and a group of controls from nearby aluminum processing plants.
(2) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
(3) Hair arsenic analysis in people living in two locations near an ore smelter and a refinery indicated high-levels compared to those of individuals residing in nonpolluted areas.
(4) Twenty-one workers from a Swedish smelter were selected on the basis of exposure to arsenic dust for more than 14 years and a previously (three years earlier) recorded subnormal FSP during local cooling.
(5) Pulmonary fibrosis has not been shown to be a significant problem in aluminum smelter workers.
(6) The mortality experience of all pensioners from a copper smelter who were aged 65 or over between 1949 and 1973 has been studied.
(7) The following forms of aluminosis should be distinguished: 1) simple accumulation in central nervous system which occurs in persons over 65 years; 2) aluminum accumulation in Alzheimer disease, in severe form of presenile and senile dementia; 3) dialysis aluminum encephalopathy; 4) non-dialysis infantile encephalopathy; 5) aluminum encephalopathy in total parenteral nutrition; 6) iatrogenic dialysis aluminum osteodystrophy; 7) jatrogenic peritoneal aluminosis; 8) aluminum pneumoconiosis of an occupational origin; 9) bronchospastic syndrome in aluminum smelter workers.
(8) Primary lead smelters within the new lead belt have been identified as potential sources of cadmium as well as lead, zinc, and copper.
(9) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(10) A cohort of 3,916 Swedish copper smelter workers employed for at least 3 months between 1928 and 1967 was followed up through 1981.
(11) Several cases of parkinsonism were found in a ferromanganese smelter after the ventilation system had broken down and had not been repaired for eight months in 1985.
(12) An increased mortality from lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, haematolymphatic malignancy and cirrhosis of the liver has been reported among smelter workers and others exposed to arsenic.
(13) Epidemiological studies have shown increased lung cancer risks in urban areas and in communities near some types of industries, such as non-ferrous smelters.
(14) Anticancer properties have been shown in occupationally exposed copper smelter workers, dietary investigations and experimental studies.
(15) Separation, final concentration and refining of by-product arsenic as the trioxide is achieved at smelters.
(16) Data were gathered from questionnaires distributed at public hearings regarding proposed air pollution standards for an arsenic emitting copper smelter located in Tacoma, Washington.
(17) The smelter was located on Mount Holly Plantation in South Carolina, and concentrations of skeletal fluoride in the deer collected at Mount Holly increased approximately five-fold 3 yr after the operation began.
(18) Occupational lead poisoning and environmental contamination were evaluated at a lead scrap smelter.
(19) The Progressive party was also instrumental in pushing through the construction of a large-scale power plant to feed an aluminium smelter owned by Alcoa.
(20) To explore the role of arsenic as a human carcinogen, the respiratory cancer mortality experience (1938 to 1977) of 8,045 while male smelter employees in Montana was examined relative to cumulative exposure to arsenic trioxide and was compared with that of the white male population of the same region.