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

“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

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

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

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

So I skedaddled over to Miss Sadie’s and tromped up her stairs and into her house.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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 Jones, Jenkins Lloyd