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

There’s no reason pickleballers couldn’t play at the park when children are in school and then skedaddle in the afternoon, she said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

“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

He told the cars to skedaddle, which they were already going to do because their protest was about to start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

And she actually did a little skedaddle motion with her hands like I was a stray cat.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

BST16:01 58 min: Oxlade-Chamberlain skedaddles down the right.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2015

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

Abby and Chris didn’t have to linger long on their corner; the young woman playing her guitar finished up in 15 minutes and skedaddled.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

Ordinary folk skedaddled out of it as fast as their horse or feet would carry them.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

In less than no time we saw a regatta of skedaddling ships.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton