How To Use Higgledy-piggledy In A Sentence
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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The 20th century saw the continuous loss of farmers and the obliteration of small farms, the decline in open and forested land near cities, and the higgledy-piggledy sprawl across the countryside of suburbs and exurbs.
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It was the previous owner, John Hegarty, who commissioned Hewett to draw up plans for the new house, a higgledy-piggledy amalgamation of neo-Georgian elements, for which permission was granted.
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Adding to the higgledy-piggledy feel of the pub is the situation of the bar, the main part is in one of the front rooms, with a serving hatch tucked under the stairs in the middle of the pub to serve the other rooms.
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Look at any hotel brochure and the chairs around the swimming pool are always neat and orderly, not higgledy-piggledy.
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They just put up their houses, shops, and factories wherever seemed most convenient, and the cities grew higgledy-piggledy.
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Cobbled streets run higgledy-piggledy through medieval houses which are stacked up along the river's steep banks.
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Turpin Real Estate Ms. Higgins said the additions that were tacked on over the years by previous owners made the house 'a little higgledy-piggledy.'
N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
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Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
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This once "higgledy-piggledy" historic home in the Township of Morris, N.J., was given a more coherent layout by the current owners.
N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
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Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
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They were seated higgledy-piggledy around the classroom on foldout plastic chairs.
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Your room is a little higgledy-piggledy and could use a bit of tailored neatness.
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Everything was shining clean, but it was higgledy-piggledy; and she could not cook.
TESTIMONIES
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It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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At the York complex, manufacturing operations that used to be spread higgledy-piggledy around more than 20 buildings have been funneled into one main factory.
Harley, With Macho Intact, Tries to Court More Women
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L' Orient, which occupies a higgledy-piggledy old building with a nice view of the high street, was empty and quiet on a Thursday afternoon, as was Pinner.
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Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
Call me Ishmael
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A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.
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Houses of pale limestone rise higgledy-piggledy from the harbour, connected by a labyrinth of stepped alleyways.
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It's a higgledy-piggledy mess of badly-designed streets and clashing styles.
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In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess.
2009 November « The Graveyard
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The tables were higgledy-piggledy, and the whole place was set out as if it had originally been as unlike a café as it was possible to be, and the owner had hastily attempted to correct this.
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Back in the 1990s a friend, tired of the usual fan's attempts to bring about victory for Middlesbrough using the paraphernalia of lucky clothing and the like and, to be honest, during the higgledy-piggledy reign of Bryan Robson even Imelda Marcos would have exhausted her wardrobe in pursuit of something that would halt a post‑Christmas slump, determined on what appeared a foolproof scheme – a retrospectively effective charm.
The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson
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For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in.
The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
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Everything within was crowded together higgledy-piggledy, each booth jammed up against its neighbor.
KING OF DREAMS
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At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way.
50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room
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And these will not be urban conurbations like Mexico City or Lagos growing higgledy-piggledy, but cities designed to accommodate such enormous populations.
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Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
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The site occupies the corner of a somewhat higgledy-piggledy plaza dominated by a small, historic church.
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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The idea for Soho House was born when his landlord at Cafe Bohème offered Jones the higgledy-piggledy offices upstairs.
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At the Whitney, sculpture must inevitably be crowded - sometimes artfully, sometimes higgledy-piggledy - into a formal museum setting.
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It was a cramped second-hand book dealership, with a whole wall full of books from more than one hundred years ago, some huge and some miniscule, all higgledy-piggledy, shoved in wherever they fit.
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I mean to level the skyline, modernising the structure; it has a disorganised higgledy-piggledy feel at the moment—not surprising, as it has been rebuilt relentlessly during the last eight centuries.
Exit the Actress
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they were piled up higgledy-piggledy
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A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.
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NGV Australia is in a whimsical development, one part of a higgledy-piggledy, harlequin coloured complex embracing a doping irregular campo.