(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
Used in a Sentence
passel
How to use passel in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for passel.
Editorial note
And instead we got a passel of XBone jokes.
Examples10
Definitions1
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for passel.
noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
See also: batch
Example sentences
And instead we got a passel of XBone jokes.
Now that I have a passel of mixed-race kids... guess who makes endless racial jokes?
And the job isn't so hard that they couldn't find a passel of candidates at $10MM.
She had a passel of squalling kids, probably primed for the event of our arrival.
You need a whole directory tree of random junk and a whole passel of build tools before that XML file does anything.
Interesting project, but probably runs afoul of a whole passel of Apple IP, and so will get nowhere useful.
Someone doing work on the yard calls the number and sometime the next day a whole passel of yellow/blue/red flags are planted in the ground, marking where various things are.
Just about everyone who ever did anything significant or groundbreaking had a whole passel of people nay-saying and saying they were crazy, trying to drag them back like crabs clutching at each other.
Bracing for a passel of autointoxication links to bubble to the top of Hackernews, accompanied by anecdata of the form "I started giving myself coffee enemas and my chronic headache/gout/acne simply vanished".
It's also so much easier to open an envelope than to deal with a passel of poorly-designed web sites and their poorly-designed authentication systems just to open a statement from each financial institution.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use passel in a sentence?
And instead we got a passel of XBone jokes.
What does passel mean?
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
What part of speech is passel?
passel is commonly used as noun.