dashed off

Example Sentences

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Instead of meticulously recording tracks, records would be dashed off spontaneously.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Her letter comes less than a day after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, dashed off a letter Wednesday night to the former prosecutors.

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2023

But his advisers’ mapped itinerary was continually sidetracked as Pérez dashed off to see new works that caught his eye.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

At 7:15 p.m., the rider’s “spirited bay mare … dashed off at a rapid rate, bearing her burden towards the Gold State.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

Furious at being blindsided by the appointment, Bush dodged Groves’s brusque queries about the state of the project and dashed off a prickly letter to Stimson’s assistant, Harvey Bundy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik