hotfoot

Example Sentences

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I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

He has come hotfoot from his new home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, where he has moved with his wife, a French artist, to be closer to Gracie, his 11-year-old daughter with his former partner, Anna Friel.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2017

One measly hotfoot, and you are out on your butt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015

Carr got up to talk to more voters, to pay for everything they’d ordered, and then to hotfoot it to a plane that would take him around the state.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2014

Beans and Mutto stood directly in front, grinning, as if watching someone about to get a hotfoot.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli