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

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

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

Not that you can feel comfortable even turning down a meager offer to skedaddle.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2015

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

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

And then he skedaddles before the bill comes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018

BST16:01 58 min: Oxlade-Chamberlain skedaddles down the right.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2015

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 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

Though they have different fathers, both of whom have long since skedaddled, the half-siblings have similar reactions, within the framework of their evident differences.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

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

From Reuters ● Feb. 11, 2022

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

But Long’s soon skedaddling down the inside-left channel to win another corner for Saints.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020

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

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

A First Line Hospital In the midst of our misery "Stand to!" was sounded, necessitating the dropping of all our skin troubles and skedaddling to get to the guns.

From S.O.S. Stand to! by Grant, Reginald