skedaddle

But even the vague threat of personal conflict and humiliation was enough to make him skedaddle down to Mar-a-Lago when it was time to go.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2023

There’s no reason pickleballers couldn’t play at the park when children are in school and then skedaddle in the afternoon, she said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

In such a situation, taking all this in, a sane character would run, flee, skedaddle, vamoose, make tracks and call in the cops, or maybe an airstrike.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Friends skedaddle because they're afraid to confront Alice's predicament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2016

And she actually did a little skedaddle motion with her hands like I was a stray cat.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

At barely an hour, it skedaddles in time to leave you with a sheepish smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

But the annual spending bills won’t be completed before Friday, and then Congress skedaddles for a 17-day recess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

Moments later Martial skedaddles in between two City defenders, zigzagging away from them, and Fernandinho chops him down.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2015

How long till Kelly skedaddles back to college, as Spurrier did?

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2015

The retreats were called "skedaddles," a term invented at the time by some wag.

From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

What if instead of staying in the tomb, she skedaddled with a posy to the Renaissance club scene in Paris and found a new love?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

Usually the sheep walked away or skedaddled before any physical altercation actually broke out.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022

One of the few positives is most investors seem to have skedaddled already.

From Reuters ● Feb. 11, 2022

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — When suspense long since has skedaddled off to some other place and a sporting event has morphed into more of a parade, people do still come for the parade.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021

So I skedaddled over to Miss Sadie’s and tromped up her stairs and into her house.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Shame on you for skedaddling anonymously and cowardly away.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

The team stunk, top to bottom and James had to escape the torment, skedaddling to Miami.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

The electric carts that you will soon see skedaddling around the lawns, meadows and playgrounds are just the latest in a decades-long transformation of trash management.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017

I could see other critics, either through ignorance, deviousness or entitlement, cruising right around the line that everyone was supposed to stand in and skedaddling up the escalator to the theater.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2015

This was to leave the impression that the Frankfort operator was skedaddling, or that Morgan's men had destroyed the telegraph.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke