passel
a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
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How to use passel in a sentence
After my parents sold it in the early 2000s, it was personal legend material, the source for a useful passel of ghosts I trotted out when people asked about my childhood.
“My Lord, What a Night” joins a passel of other pioneering shows restarting in-person theater in the Washington region, after the long, pandemic-enforced drought.
Albert Einstein and Marian Anderson were good friends. But a new play at Ford’s Theatre only scratches the surface. | Peter Marks | October 7, 2021 | Washington PostThe large-cast musical will contain a passel of Spears hits — including numbers such as “Lucky,” “Toxic” and “Oops I Did It Again.”
Harold Ramis made a passel of great comedies, but he never made one better than Groundhog Day.
Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets | Malcolm Jones | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWay back during the 2000 Bush-Gore smackdown, I dug around in the data, interviewed undecideds, and called up a passel of experts.
After all, didn't she figure out a way to "have it all"—a passel of children, a first dude, and a big job in the public sphere?
Ain't no surer sign o' poor soil than a passel o' mullein stalks.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondI'll be dumbed if I ever imagined there wuz sich a passel o' condemned thieves on the face o' the airth.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyMars Jedge, duz yu specks me to pay dat passel of munny to de state nex Krismas too?
The Broken Sword | Dennison WorthingtonI'm not knowin' rightly where, but we'll find un, an' we'll shoot them Injuns just like a passel o' wolves.
The Gaunt Gray Wolf | Dillon WallaceThey may be a big passel o' Mingens, and whilst we catches some of un, th' others won't be sittin' quiet.
The Gaunt Gray Wolf | Dillon Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for passel
/ (ˈpæsəl) /
informal, or dialect, mainly US a group or quantity of no fixed number
Origin of passel
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