dashed
Example Sentences
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The disappointment in September dashed those hopes, for now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Organizers were scrambling to find Gerwig but she had dashed off somewhere else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
On Aug. 26, the alert mechanism failed again and the dam was dashed to pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The volunteer had barely put down the tomato when a small beak poked out from a bush and dashed towards it in an abandoned garden in fire-ravaged southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Quick on his feet, he often dashed across the Jungfem Bridge and hid in the pine forest around the New Johannes cemetery.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
