dash

I tear my eyes away from the ruined television just in time to see Woo making a mad dash for the back door.

On cue, the three older children dashed to their mother’s side, weeping and begging her not to succumb.

“See? She did not forget!” she thought, but her excitement was dashed in the next sentence.

He cut a very dashing figure, to be sure, in a trim scarlet tunic over deep blue trousers, with a spotless white belt cinched about his waist.

Michael’s sneakers splashed through the puddles as he dashed across the courtyard.