(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.
Swelter
Definition:
(v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
(v. i.) To welter; to soak.
(v. t.) To oppress with heat.
(v. t.) To exude, like sweat.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the summer heat strikes the Korean peninsula, it's not ice or water that North Korea's authorities recommend to get through the sweltering conditions – it's dog meat, among other "revitalising" foods.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
(4) The agents were waiting for the arrival of a flight from San Vicente del Caguán, a cattle-ranching town in the sweltering southern lowlands, the largest town in a region dominated by the country's most powerful guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
(5) Shola Obadeyu wore a heavy duffel coat while queueing in Heathrow for a flight back to her sweltering home city of Abuja.
(6) Against a backdrop of the East River and the Manhattan skyline, addressing thousands of supporters who braved sweltering summer heat, Clinton portrayed herself as a fighter and champion of progressive causes as she laid out the themes that will define her second bid for the White House.
(7) Wales take on Cyprus in the sweltering heat of Nicosia on Thursday night before hosting Israel in Cardiff on Sunday and Coleman has been involved in football long enough to recognise the perils of getting into a discussion on the six points in 72 hours that would seal qualification for Euro 2016 with two fixtures to spare.
(8) Health experts think mosquito transmission probably will occur in the US, but the expectation is that it will be in low-elevation, sweltering places where the insect has been a steady problem – like southern Florida or southern Texas .
(9) The officer closed the door and soon Hutcherson began sweltering from the heat in the stifling room.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young girl eats porridge in a sweltering hot shipping container in Bentiu.
(11) It is a sweltering day in the west London neighbourhood of Hammersmith, but for one estate agent the temperature of the housing market has been distinctly colder in recent weeks.
(12) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(13) Perhaps Oprah really did work with “Teavana’s leading teaologist, Naoko Tsunoda” to create it, through long, hard hours in some sweltering Starbucks tea mill, up to her elbows in cardamom, beset by cloves, painstakingly measuring and remeasuring piles of pot-pourri to achieve the perfect balance of inspiration and spiritual health.
(14) More than 1,800 people were killed; others were stranded for days without food or drinking water in sweltering temperatures, producing searing images of a human catastrophe and government failure.
(15) The theme of this week's meeting in the sweltering Indonesian resort island of Bali is global partnership, the orphan child of the millennium development goals (MDGs).
(16) The majority of respondents from Colombia were from the Andean city of Bogotá, which is not believed to have been badly affected, while most Venezuelan respondents were from the sweltering coastal capital Caracas, which is thought to have suffered high rates of infection.
(17) Many now swelter in tiny concrete cells for months on end without charge, their detention renewed by a judge every 45 days .
(18) Souvenir stands sell doormats and toilet rolls bearing the image of Yanukovych, and of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Just a few hundred people remain, sweltering in the summer heat, a far cry from the tens of thousands who stood there during the icy winter evenings prior to Yanukovych's fall.
(19) Born in a market town not far from the capital city of Asmara, Teklehaimanot explained on a sweltering day in Amsterdam, at the team’s official presentation before the start of the race in Utrecht, how cycling was in his blood.
(20) Courtesy of Australia they are enjoying a dystopian coming of age in broken families trapped in a makeshift prison on a sweltering island.