Thesaurus / dart
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Then Daniel Sprong broke the Islanders’ stretch with a dart from the left circle 22 seconds later for his seventh goal.
ILYA SAMSONOV AND THE CAPITALS ARE NOT GREAT AS THE ISLANDERS SCORE EIGHTSAMANTHA PELLAPRIL 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The first true pang of grief shot through Ethel like a dart, stabbing and taking away her breath, "Where are they?"
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
It finally plunged sharply down to a steamboat ferry, over which we crossed the Dart and landed directly in the town.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHY
Spread out on one of the steep slopes of the Dart, it overlooks the deep-set river toward the sea.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHY
He had no inclination for some minutes to dart down again into the valley to proceed on the course he had marked out.
DIGBY HEATHCOTEW.H.G. KINGSTON
To such a mind, ridicule is a venomed dart, piercing and poisoning, and pride but inflames the wound.
ALONEMARION HARLAND
I watched you dart like a sunbeam into the forest, so I followed with my slow speed to give you warning.'
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAM
An erratic firefly wandered down from the overhanging branches, then commenced to dart from side to side near her head.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAM
He crouched together, brushing on the wainscot, and made a dart like a serpent, striking for the door.
TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Stopford who, at first, was dead set on digging agreed to have a dart at Kavak Tepe.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME 2IAN HAMILTON
WORDS RELATED TO DART
- blow
- bolt
- clear out
- dart
- dash
- decamp
- expedite
- fly
- fly the coop
- get a move on
- go like lightning
- hasten
- hightail it
- hurry
- hurry up
- hustle
- leave
- make haste
- make oneself scarce
- make time
- make tracks
- move
- move fast
- race
- run
- rush
- scamper
- scat
- scoot
- scurry
- shake a leg
- speed
- split
- spur
- step on it
- take off
- vamoose
- whiz
- zip
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.