skedaddle
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Ernest Hemingway’s advice for novelists dealing with Hollywood was to stop on the east bank of the Colorado River, hold your nose, toss your screenplay over the state line, take the money and skedaddle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022
Not that you can feel comfortable even turning down a meager offer to skedaddle.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2015
Dad steered the Blue Goose through the dark, driving slowly so as not to alert anyone in the trailer park that we were, as Dad liked to put it, doing the skedaddle.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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