hotfoot

Example Sentences

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They don’t all hotfoot it straight to the police station.

From Slate • May 20, 2023

Howard is only one of the many characters woven into “Mary Toft,” and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2019

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

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015

"I wish whoever gave Kravitz that hotfoot would confess," said Specimen.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville