skedaddling
- present participle of skedaddle.
Example Sentences
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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
The electric carts that you will soon see skedaddling around the lawns, meadows and playgrounds are just the latest in a decades-long transformation of trash management.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017
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
I've upset the boy's cage of white mice and they're skedaddling about my legs.
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
