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How to use hurly-burly in a sentence

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One of the things that serves as a brief respite from the hurly-burly is the attempts some people will go to to advertise their product.
However, I must confess that with age has come a certain distaste for the noise, the crowds and the whole hurly-burly of mass protest.
Despite all the pomp and circumstance, political hurly-burly raised its head at yesterday's festivities.
After the hurly-burly of London life, rural coupledom felt unbelievably peaceful.
Whether in the hurly-burly of real-world politics more information means better decisions is an open question.
Despite the hurly-burly involved in running a home, most parents have discussed who should take their children should they have a fatal accident.
Back in the hurly-burly of the main part of old Georgetown, I discovered surprises round every corner.
Amid the hurly-burly of network TV, it's almost unheard of for programmers to plan beyond their next season, let alone five years hence.
It's peaceful and pristine up here away from the hurly-burly of the recreation area.
In the hurly-burly of the festival you meet all sorts of people, old friends and new.
Next to the medieval trade-route gates, it has returned to the hurly-burly of much earlier times.
He looks as if he would be more at home in the still places of academe than in the hurly-burly of political life.
One inch shorter and at least a stone lighter, he is a relatively small by modern standards and still looks lost occasionally in the hurly-burly of international rugby.
Busy, busy, busy and I go back to the hurly-burly of the office.
Anyway, Gus was so exquisite he used not to take part in the rough hurly-burly of football matches, but would remain aloof in perfectly clean kit.
The majority of visitors come to the National Park to experience the special qualities of the area and to get away from the hurly-burly of every day life.
For most people forests are at best something nice to look at, somewhere to walk their dog, a refuge from the hurly-burly of daily life.
He wants that sort of serenity which seems to be impossible of attainment in the hurly-burly of everyday business life.
I offer these reflections to you in the knowledge that such principles and values may seem very distant from the hurly-burly of everyday life.
A child has a fever in the night and the parents know that a quiet day at home is needed rather than the hurly-burly of regular day care.
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In the hurly-burly and the general shriek for mercy his reassurances were not heard.
But what can have brought you into this hurly-burly of folly and wickedness?
So fierce was the hurly-burly that it seemed as if man and horse must perish under it.
I went on, a thought coming to the surface in the hurly-burly of my mind.
They tell me you were the man who pulled me out of that hurly-burly.
It was all hurly-burly, and every one was ordered immediately to quarters.
Once in the hurly-burly of the foam the chances would be all on its side.
I summon from that humming and hurly-burly past, the ancient proof-reader.
He returned home to be swept into the hurly-burly of military affairs.
Quickly he was lost to view in the hurly-burly of foam and spray.
Any theory of a disruptive, hurly-burly aspect is grist to the mill of futurism.
That not only underscored his versatility, but it also showed that competing over seven furlongs in hurly-burly handicaps is very much his forte.
Want to take in a hit West End show without the hurly-burly of travelling to the capital?
Because in the hurly-burly of life it's all too easy to forget.
The mules, however, confounded by the hurly-burly and disliking their new riders kicked up their heels and dismounted half of them, in spite of their horsemanship.
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