hotfoot

Example Sentences

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Washington has been getting poked in the eye, given the hotfoot, had bubble gum put on its hat or had its pants pulled down in public since 1901 by the “national pastime.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Carr got up to talk to more voters, to pay for everything they’d ordered, and then to hotfoot it to a plane that would take him around the state.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2014

As they fall over laughing, one can hotfoot it away.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012

Beans and Mutto stood directly in front, grinning, as if watching someone about to get a hotfoot.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli