Example sentences for: hurly-burly

How can you use “hurly-burly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the last few days, however, Chatterbox has been a little pressed for time amid the hurly-burly of domestic life (the refrigerator broke down, the Chattersitter smashed up the Taurus wagon), and he's been looking for shortcuts.

  • Given the sensitivity of the fMRI result to such seemingly minor perturbations, it's hard to imagine it could be reliably adapted to the hurly-burly of an airport security checkpoint.

  • Ulee might have cut have himself off from the emotional hurly-burly of life, but he's deeply in tune with the natural world.

  • If he thinks it's about moral leadership, or about standing above the hurly-burly of politics, he's kidding himself.

  • Much of his skill was acquired in the hurly-burly of life, but his works had a certain merit.


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