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

He realized that unless he stopped the maddened steer it would dash ahead on into the locomotive.

From Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Young, Clarence

It seemed as though they could themselves scent the water, just as the wise old Dobbin had; for helter-skelter the entire troop started to make a wild dash ahead.

From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by Warren, George A.

Those in the slower buckboard, whose tired team could ill afford any gait beyond a walk, saw him set spurs to his horse and dash ahead.

From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson

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