passel

[ US /ˈpæsɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːsə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. (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
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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.
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