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

He told the cars to skedaddle, which they were already going to do because their protest was about to start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

I skedaddle down the steps crosst the yard to Miss Lizzy’s.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

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

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

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

Ordinary folk skedaddled out of it as fast as their horse or feet would carry them.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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

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