skedaddle

How to use skedaddle in a sentence

• skedaddle onto the equally heart-stopping Million Dollar Highway to Ouray and Telluride.

  The U.S. Road Trips You Should Really Take | Lonely Planet | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Obedient to this command The Hopper made the car skedaddle, but superstitious dread settled upon him more heavily.

  A Reversible Santa Claus | Meredith Nicholson

• Let him plant his light and airy form onto the Long Bridge, make faces at the hirelin' foe, and they'll skedaddle!

  The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)

• The prairie took fire from Company G's cook-fire, making us skedaddle at a double-quick.

  History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry | Alfred J. Hill

• Truxton shot one of 'em, but that put the infernals in the rest, an the old feller had to 'skedaddle,' as they say in these days.

  Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia | Seba Smith