Example Sentences
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When the birds vamoosed from East Sand Island, the population on the bridge ballooned from 333 breeding pairs in 2014 to a peak of more than 5,000 pairs in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
My de facto plus-one, with whom I’d recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, had just vamoosed for a six-month research fellowship overseas.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
He and others have confessed to surprise that the Afghan president turned tail and vamoosed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
However, they were in an empty facility, at a time when breakfast service was over, the homeless clients vamoosed, the place already scrubbed by volunteers.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2012
She’d vamoosed into the tall grass, and off she was headed for the jungle, where it was plain to see he’d never find her.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
