How To Use Kelter In A Sentence
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There is an internal process that we go through, but it is kind of helter-skelter, in a good way.
Restaurant Reviews
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She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter.
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In a bid to create a rival attraction to the London Eye and the Manchester Wheel, Ulverston Town Council decides to convert the monument into a helter-skelter.
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Vehicles coming in the gates are checked for bombs, and white U.N. vehicles, mostly Toyota 4Runners, are parked helter-skelter around a dirt lot.
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Just when you think that there is nothing that can surprise you any more in the crazy helter-skelter world that is Scottish football, along comes an event which makes your jaw drop.
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A helter-skelter first half wasn't finished yet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby.
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The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon.
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Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama.
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He now faces another crisis in his helter-skelter existence.
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It was breathless, helter-skelter stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT'S been helter-skelter stuff with no quarter given in the heat of battle.
The Sun
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We don't want the kind of world we'll get if we allow global climate change, resource conflicts, resource constraints, environmental degradation, overwhelming population growth, helter-skelter urbanization, war, social injustice and other looming problems to go unaddressed.
William S. Becker: Let's Talk About the Future We Want
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The projected video feed of its crazed, helter-skelter movements delivers the sickening effect of a fairground ride.
This week's new exhibitions
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People ran helter-skelter. There were bodies on the ground and the injured were crying.
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Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras.
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That's the way it's supposed to be - an evolving drama with nuance, color, deliberate pacing, and bursts of action that take you away from the helter-skelter of our otherwise rush-rush worlds.
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There's also plenty for the family to do and see – Victorian traditions such as helter skelter, carousel and swing boats, a steam engine, ice rink, coconut shi and hoopla stalls, street entertainment, music and shows all bring a taste of the past back to the town.
The Bedford Christmas Victorian Market
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And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
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On the helter-skelter main roads in these villages and towns we pass by tiendas offering everything from toothpaste to tomatoes or a farmacia where you can purchase drugs that don't require taking out a bank loan, although it might be useful to check their expiry dates.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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A helter-skelter first half wasn't finished yet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides.
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That's right -- tip up the kelter, it will make my bones amends, [14]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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His current line, as in a speech today, is that his helter-skelter approach, paying more urgent attention to pre-school education than to the health of the banking system, is just fine.
Stromata Blog:
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Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion.
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Och, but the wean outskraugh, sclentan back on the breist o his nourrice, fairlie dumbfounert he was at the sicht o his daddie that loed him, fleggit sair at the bress and the crest wi its wallopan horsehair, kelteran doun frae the tap o the bassanat, unco the sicht o't.
Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
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a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause
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Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life.
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On the helter-skelter main roads in these villages and towns we pass by tiendas offering everything from toothpaste to tomatoes or a farmacia where you can purchase drugs that don't require taking out a bank loan, although it might be useful to check their expiry dates.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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Tell them that you feel friendship is undervalued in this helter-skelter crazy materialistic world.
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It was put together in a casual, helter-skelter sort of way.
CHAPTER IV
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Then the politicals are all out of kelter, one doesn't hardly know his own mind, and all are afraid of what is in another's.
Margaret
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“frivolousness” was out of kelter with the profession of a Christian.
From the Bottom Up
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Approaching this year's jamboree in Gloucestershire, he is riding better than ever at 34, having put the brakes on a helter-skelter lifestyle.
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Nor was it a kneejerk reaction on the high street to the recent helter-skelter in the City.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT'S been helter-skelter stuff with no quarter given in the heat of battle.
The Sun
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the books were piled up helter-skelter
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It is another chance for Beagrie to stake a claim in his helter - skelter Goodison career.
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The Revolution Business looks like the original painting had an interesting composition, but then the text is plopped over it helter-skelter, creating an over-all impression of just chaos.
Book Cover Smackdown! Berserker Lord (Chaosbound) vs. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms vs. The Revolution Business
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I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering.
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There are waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
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I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter.
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He was drifting helter skelter towards the path of oncoming rowers.
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They go for steals and get you in this helter-skelter, frantic mode.''
The Knicks Do Too Play Defense
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He ran helter-skelter down the slope.
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But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches?
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Before attending Odyssey, I researched in a helter-skelter fashion.
WRITING QUESTION: RESEARCH SOURCES PART TWO
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Fiscal -- Something has been out of kelter at Washington these two years with regard to the rigid application of appropriations, at least in the Indian Department.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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He also noticed rumpled clothing all over the floor, and a number of ripped plastic packages lying helter-skelter on the carpet.
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Given the pace of cultural change in the helter-skelter postwar boom, it would be an incongruously long reign.
Splatter-Day Saints
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It was like climbing the wrong way up a helter-skelter; we got to the top and stood on the parapet waiting to jump.
On the Chain Gang « Write Anything
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He blamed Skinner for his etymology for helter-skelter from the Anglo-Saxon words for the darkness of hell: "Hell, says he, being a place of confusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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But what one gets is a helter-skelter portrait of a crazy world in which justice turns into a form of showbusiness and in which even a savage shooting is something to be marketed.
Vernon God Little - review
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And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter.
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There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands.
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The wheat's kernin 'somethin' cruel fine -- I awnly wish theer was more of it -- an 'the sheep an' cattle's in braave kelter likewise.
Lying Prophets
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On one Manhattan block Sunday, sanitation trucks with front loaders were busy clearing snow, but garbage bins outside apartment buildings were filled to overflowing, and bags of recyclable beer bottles and milk cartons were stacked helter-skelter along with discarded Christmas trees and wreaths.
NYC trash pickup resumes, a week after blizzard
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The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation.
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It occurs to me that this is not unlike the process I always have to go through with a book -- I write a bunch of it kind of helter-skelter, enough to get a feel for it, and then I have to stop and take it apart and rearrange the pile of rocks into something that will bear weight -- arches and pillars -- so they can support the structure of the rest of the novel atop them.
Can't seem to loosen my grip on the past
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Tom fell down, and his books, papers, and lunch landed helter-skelter over the sidewalk.
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Especially a side that was now moving through the gears and playing the game at a helter-skelter pace.
The Sun
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I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering.
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We understand that it's going to get to kind of helter skelter every now and then.
Undefined
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Given the pace of cultural change in the helter-skelter postwar boom, it would be an incongruously long reign.
Splatter-Day Saints
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There were dodgem cars, helter skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most.
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The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times.
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The last day in the life of Bostie the budgie was a helter-skelter ride.
The Guardian World News
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_Fiscal_ -- Something has been out of kelter at Washington these two years with regard to the rigid application of appropriations, at least in the Indian Department.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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His fast, free-wheeling style, is inspired lunacy, and his helter-skelter of a show promises the audience the ride of their lives.
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His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous.
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Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter.
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There's also story-telling, kids' craft activities, a Victorian helter-skelter and swingboats, a beer tent and local produce, food and drink.
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In 1990, Ireland's GDP per head was 75 per cent of Belgium's but such has been the helter-skelter of the 1990s, we are now almost ten per cent richer.
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Especially a side that was now moving through the gears and playing the game at a helter-skelter pace.
The Sun
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I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in a helter-skelter.
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Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him.
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Och, but the wean outskraugh, sclentan back on the breist o his nourrice, fairlie dumbfounert he was at the sicht o his daddie that loed him, fleggit sair at the bress and the crest wi its wallopan horsehair, kelteran doun frae the tap o the bassanat, unco the sicht o't.
Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
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Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat.
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It was a mess of homey flowers planted without a plan but blooming cheerily from their helter-skelter place.
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Nature has been killing helter-skelter, indiscriminately and massively forever.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed
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And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
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Now that the Republicans are out of power shouldn't this blog and its posters be flinging the F word helter skelter?
Sound Politics: What It Means
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Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets.
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He blamed Skinner for his etymology for helter-skelter from the Anglo-Saxon words for the darkness of hell: "Hell, says he, being a place of confusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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People were screaming and running helter-skelter down the steps to escape the flames.
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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.
Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland | Euro 2012 play-off match report
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Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon.
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At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here.
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Neither of those current stereotypes survived this extraordinary match, a helter-skelter ride of fine goals and head-clutching errors – and that is to take into account only the individual contributions of Wayne Rooney and Fernando Torres, both of whom touched the heights of the sublime and the depths of the gor-blimey.
Fernando Torres revived before demons return in Theatre of the Absurd | Richard Williams
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We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing.
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It was here that Charles Manson and members of his cult family were hiding out after the so - called helter-skelter murders that claimed at least seven lives and terrified the country in 1969.
CNN Transcript May 8, 2008
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Efforts to vaccinate the nation's children went forward immediately, in somewhat helter-skelter fashion, to beat the summer onset of the disease.
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But they might as well have tried to nod off on a fairground ride, such was the helter-skelter day of cricket that was to follow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another sign of the stunning turnaround: U.S. Treasurys, which had been a helter-skelter destination for safety-seeking investors, have seen prices collapse.
Stock Surge Has Its Skeptics
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He now faces another crisis in his helter-skelter existence.
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It ' s a marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helt er-skelter innovation and clandestine activity, punc tuated by succulent reminders that this was the era of the Mad Men ' s paradise lost: the steaks, the martinis, a fight over a wife in a bar, the Buick with whitewall tires roaring past an old crusader castle.
Tinker, Tailor, Pilot, Spy
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His antics are off kelter, but he is pretty universall y respected for his stance and his dedication and his passion, and most of us agree with dignified dying.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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It's a helter-skelter ride and you can reach speeds of more than 10 knots in the process.
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Waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
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I smiled to myself as the wind blew tossing the leaves helter-skelter and making them dance like ballerinas, minus the tutus.
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Some of us remember you very well Jimbo and we know we all have feet of clay but please just do everyone a favor and do not resurrect the sad doomsayer of the beginning of the 21st Century who couild not have been more wrong if he had been Charlie Manson predicting his "Helter Skelter" race war.
Water in Chapala
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Later, these multitudinous LANs were patched together via routers in a helter-skelter manner.
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It was breathless, helter-skelter stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides.
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Long Jimmy," a big eater, asked him, "Shadrach, is the soup in good kelter?
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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A helter-skelter mix of documentary and music video, the film contextualises Vivaldi's life through The Four Seasons, the most recorded and popular classical music ever written.
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It was like climbing the wrong way up a helter-skelter; we got to the top and stood on the parapet waiting to jump.
On the Chain Gang « Write Anything
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The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own.
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Helter Skelter, Murder One and several other specialists lost their shopfront presence and made way for more coffee retailers.
Confessions of a sporting bibliophile | Rob Bagchi
