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

In such a situation, taking all this in, a sane character would run, flee, skedaddle, vamoose, make tracks and call in the cops, or maybe an airstrike.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Friends skedaddle because they're afraid to confront Alice's predicament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2016

“You’ve got about thirty minutes. Better skedaddle before Lily sees you, or she’ll hug on you 'til the car is half out of the driveway.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

At barely an hour, it skedaddles in time to leave you with a sheepish smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

BST16:03 58 min: Richards skedaddles infield from the right, a wonderfully purposeful run that eats up half of the pitch.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 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

His boat skedaddled up to a rock, hit it catty-cornered, and spun, and Abel was suddenly in the water, without his boat, borne along like a limp rag.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Shame on you for skedaddling anonymously and cowardly away.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

But Long’s soon skedaddling down the inside-left channel to win another corner for Saints.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020

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

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

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton