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

“The session adjourns and members skedaddle out of there rapidly so it’s hard for journalists to get to them, unlike when they’re on the floor they can immediately get to them.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

Ernest Hemingway’s advice for novelists dealing with Hollywood was to stop on the east bank of the Colorado River, hold your nose, toss your screenplay over the state line, take the money and skedaddle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

Several of the employees stopped to watch, but Josephine told them all to skedaddle.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

And then he skedaddles before the bill comes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018

How long till Kelly skedaddles back to the comfort of a football-factory situation?

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2015

Sterling skedaddles through the heart of the Slovenia defence and into the area.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2015

No one notices him, and hailing it as a happy omen, he pounces upon the coveted quadruped, grasps it tightly in his hands, and skedaddles.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870 by Various

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

Just then Quayle approached, and Paul skedaddled back to his seat.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018

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

Johnson said she’s taken the middle seat on flights to make up for skedaddling on her fiancé—one of many favors Precheckers told me they perform to mitigate some of the inequities.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

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

The first village I arrive at to-day, I again attempt the "skedaddling" dodge on them that proved so successful on one occasion yesterday; but I am foiled by a rocky "jump-off" in the road to-day.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens