Example Sentences

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Shame on you for skedaddling anonymously and cowardly away.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2023

Johnson said she’s taken the middle seat on flights to make up for skedaddling on her fiancé—one of many favors Precheckers told me they perform to mitigate some of the inequities.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2020

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

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