hotfoot

Example Sentences

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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

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

They still can't see that it’s time to cut bait and hotfoot it out of town.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland