dash ahead

Example Sentences

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“There’s a lot of adrenaline,” said Mike Holzberg, a retiree from Scottsdale who was one of about 100 people to dash ahead of the bulls on Friday night.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2011

Then he would dash ahead as though the very furies were after him.

From The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies by Crane, Laura Dent

I vowed, torn between the desire to hear her secret, and to dash ahead of the caravan into camp.

From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

But Saul would not be his own hero, and said briefly: "Any man can be brave when the battle-fever is on him, and it only takes a little physical courage to dash ahead."

From Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Alcott, Louisa May

The rabbit makes a dash ahead and a double or two, and then halts, usually at the mouth of a hole: perhaps to breathe.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard