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

Washington has been getting poked in the eye, given the hotfoot, had bubble gum put on its hat or had its pants pulled down in public since 1901 by the “national pastime.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 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

As soon as he can, he will hotfoot it to the South Dade Regional Library, 30-odd minutes away, for the day’s second early-vote rally.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2012

Beans and Mutto stood directly in front, grinning, as if watching someone about to get a hotfoot.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli