DASH in a Sentence

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181 example sentences for DASH, such as:

1. He dashed his head against the wall.
2. We dashed off a letter to announce the news.
3. He dashed off to lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.
4. In my fury, I dash all the dishes to the floor.
5. sound, but the dash of fountains or the rustle of.

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 Meanings and Examples of DASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dash
 v.  throw with violence or haste; break, as by throwing or by collision; form or sketch rapidly
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1  The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Dureresque vigour and dash.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  But when aroused she would make a dash which, just for the time, was not unlike the move of a naturally lively person.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
5  Misfortune had struck them gracefully, cutting off their erratic histories with a catastrophic dash, instead of, as with many, attenuating each life to an uninteresting meagreness, through long years of wrinkles, neglect, and decay.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
6  So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
7  Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
8  From every gesture and expression I could see that he was a reserved, self-contained man, with a dash of pride in his nature, more likely to hide his wounds than to expose them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
9  But, first, as I am rather shaken by the knocking about which I had in the dressing-room, I think that I shall help myself to a dash of your brandy, Colonel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
10  Have your fare ready, and the instant that your cab stops, dash through the Arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at a quarter-past nine.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
11  sound, but the dash of fountains or the rustle of.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
12  If you could understand and talk, you would tell me where the wretch is hiding, and I would dash his brains upon the ground till they flew all over the cave.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
13  Catherine had risen with an impulse to dash out, when she saw him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
15  A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  He jumped off the bus and made a dash for the nearest bar.
2  Anyway, I must dash - I said I'd meet Daniel at eight.
3  He brought youthful energy, dash and charisma to the department.
4  In my fury, I dash all the dishes to the floor.
5  The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.
6  We dashed off a letter to announce the news.
7  He dashed his head against the wall.
8  She dashed the glass into smithereens against the wall.
9  They began running again, broke cover and dashed towards the road.
10  The door flew open and in dashed a gentleman with a serviette round his neck.
11  Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
12  When he heard the bugle call, he caught up his gun and dashed out.
13  He dashed off to lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.