[
US
/ˈpæsɪɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːsəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːsəl/ ]
NOUN
-
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market
How To Use passel In A Sentence
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- Instead of black-tie fund-raising dinners, the whole passel of these incumbents ought to be sitting at America's kitchen tables, listening to reality… and responding.
- The ensuing chase reveals not only more treachery but also a passel of romantic entanglements.
- The new wisdom - being taught to a guy at the Star Tribune - is don't pick a fight with guys who buy pixels by the passel.
- Now a whole passel of them — Landrieu, Bayh, Lincoln, Lieberman, Pryor, Begich, Nelson, McCaskill — have expressed varying levels of unease with the idea. Matthew Yglesias » House Progressives Willing to Back Modified Senate Bill, Centrist Senators Resume Customary Posture as Villains
- What you're seeing in the Alley is second- and third-generation entrepreneurs. You have a passel of more experienced investors.
- All I know is someone used the word passel in a sentence, and I like it. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » The (possible) Science of Cat Ladies
- Time to pass the biscuits to a new passel of Texans
- ‘I don't know about a passel of children,’ she murmured.
- And there aren't a passel of younger children around to give your daughters a close-up view of what having one of your own to care for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with no time off for good behavior, might look like.