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

“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

But we can hear MGM’s “ultra pool” before we even lay eyes on it, and we turn on our heels and skedaddle back down the Strip to our hotel.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2018

“You’ve got about thirty minutes. Better skedaddle before Lily sees you, or she’ll hug on you 'til the car is half out of the driveway.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

The ball bounces, skedaddles and wheeches wide, wuth the best you can say about it that it was optimistic.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2016

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

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

Then he skedaddled down the hall, not wanting to be caught talking to the condemned prisoner.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

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

We passed the night skedaddling up and down the trench at full speed, to dodge the showers.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray