Example Sentences

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A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing hotfoots its way towards crowning its winner, reigning champ Joe McFadden professes to not feeling too glum about giving up the glitterball.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2018

They wear Broadway ties, golf together, give each other hotfoots at board meetings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo.

From Time Magazine Archive

And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner