skedaddle

Chastened and anxious, she’s determined to partake in a polite meal and then skedaddle before her feelings overwhelm her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

I skedaddle down the steps crosst the yard to Miss Lizzy’s.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

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

A late clatter into Gibbs, who skedaddles down the left, and that’s a second yellow for Barry.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015

How long till Kelly skedaddles back to college, as Spurrier did?

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2015

The retreats were called "skedaddles," a term invented at the time by some wag.

From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

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

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — When suspense long since has skedaddled off to some other place and a sporting event has morphed into more of a parade, people do still come for the parade.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021

I hugged Dismay first—he was so alive and full of good feelings—and I skedaddled for the house.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Shame on you for skedaddling anonymously and cowardly away.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

The team stunk, top to bottom and James had to escape the torment, skedaddling to Miami.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

I could see other critics, either through ignorance, deviousness or entitlement, cruising right around the line that everyone was supposed to stand in and skedaddling up the escalator to the theater.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2015

Ever since he began considering a run late last year, Bush had mostly dealt with questions about his brother by nervously tugging his collar and skedaddling.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2015

It proved to be an alarm caused by a party of guerrillas making a dash upon our foraging train, capturing some seventy mules, then skedaddling before the escort could come up.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones