skedaddle
verb (used without object)
to run away hurriedly; flee.
were skedaddling
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past progressiveof skedaddle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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While the scared boys were skedaddling, Down the brook two geese came paddling.
From Max and Maurice a juvenile history in seven tricks by Charles Timothy Brooks
The strong buildings of Tripoli trembled to their foundations and hundreds of Arabs, who were out upon their roofs when the battle commenced, to witness it, in five minutes' time were skedaddling for their lives.
From The Bark Covered House by William Nowlin
