How To Use Dashed In A Sentence

My daydreams of creaming him in a spit-off were instantly dashed.
He dashed into the burning house with reckless abandon .
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.

He picked up speed and dashed through the ever-increasing crosswinds of sand.
For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work. Mary Anerley
On the field, the pretournament expectations were more pedestrian and luckily dashed. A Fun, Creative Germany
Dashed segments of the line indicate where viable seeds do not germinate at low temperatures.
Quickly stripping down to my underwear and bra, I dashed towards my closet.
Any hopes Wasps had of upsetting that plan were dashed by an England flyhalf almost forgotten in the blitz of publicity surrounding their own. The Sun
Side by side they lay among the morning-glories, with the yellow blossoms of the hau dropping upon them from overhead, watching the motes of men toil upward, till the thing happened, and three of them, slipping, rolling, sliding, dashed over a cliff-lip and fell sheer half a thousand feet. Koolau the Leper
Company after company dashed into the blazing "fireproof" building, urged by the hoarse profanity of the chief. The Poisoned Pen
In the few seconds available, he dashed to the starboard side and braced himself for the impact. Times, Sunday Times
The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
The hopes of the people have been dashed too many times to believe that they can rid the country of the ruling clique with the ballot.
Then, within ten feet of the goal, Robbie's pace slowed suddenly to the merest of crawls, and Gloria, with one final burst of wild speed, dashed pantingly past him to touch the welcome bark of home-tree first.
Theirs is an all-consuming love that has been rudely dashed but will quicken again tomorrow, regardless of today's despair.
his hopes were dashed to smithereens
Her medal hopes were dashed by injury.
The horses dashed out of burning stable.
Behind the house is a border like a theatre set, its foreground dashed with red, yellow and blue of flowering bushes against a backdrop of a hundred greens.
From the outside, our 1930s semi is a bit of a monster: part pebbledashed and completely flat-fronted. Times, Sunday Times
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
They dashed through the entrance, nearly trampling the stout guard in the process.
Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him. Nightside The Long Sun
Contestants dashed to close deals using fax machines in airless offices. Times, Sunday Times
He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away.
Frankie Dettori's bid to notch up his third straight victory in the race was dashed as his mount Doyen finished fourth.
He dashed off to lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.
But her petiteness was incongruous with her combatant stride, and when she got close enough for him to read her expression, his hopes for this meeting turning out to be good for him were instantly dashed. Tough Customer
A bird dashed across the window, flapped its wings and shot off in to the black void.
Hopes of a full recovery are dashed by cancer cells' stubborn resistance to conventional treatments. Times, Sunday Times
All our hopes were dashed by the announcement.
But 25 years ago my dreams were dashed as I grew too tall to fit inside.
Bending low with his arms about his head and blood trickling down his chin, he dashed behind the Meanwell coalhouse. The Dollmaker
He dashed the plate against the wall
The dashed line is a gluon, which transmits colour charge and momentum to the final state, mediating the decay. meson equals 1019.4 MeV, which is just a little bit more than twice the mass of the charged kaons (493.7 MeV). Scientific Blogging
The publishers wanted a summary that afternoon, so I dashed it off in an hour or so.
Very big waves dashed over the sea wall at the height of the storm.
So I went back, and saw a man, presumably of ill repute, sideling up to the ATM machine as it asked if I needed more time, and when he saw me, he dashed away. A mystery! « knitnut.net
For a moment he held him, then, suddenly releasing his arms, he caught him round the body, shook him with a mighty side-heave, gave him the cross-buttock, and, before he could strike a single blow, threw him in the air and dashed him to the ground. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
The more to the left of and above the dashed straight line a curve is, the more potential exists for improvement.
Union leaders will decide today whether to call fresh strikes by firefighters in the New Year, as a deepening rift with the Government dashed any hopes of a breakthrough in the pay dispute.
The year 2000 started out full of hope for all of us but, sadly, during the course of the past year for the farming community many of those hopes have already been dashed.
By making it dashed awkward to get to. Times, Sunday Times
I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
Has he not dashed his heavenly quadrant? Moby Dick
She would have been waiting now till the house was quiet, and then she would have dashed up to her room to dress, with that exquisite sense of freedom which made the whole delight of the thing, and in half an hour she might have been the _Boy_ with Israfil. The Heavenly Twins
Behind the house is a border like a theatre set, its foreground dashed with red, yellow and blue of flowering bushes against a backdrop of a hundred greens.
The dogs cornered the bear in a thicket, and when it dashed for the water once more, the men fired and managed to kill it.
A squirrel dashed across the road, plumy tail bouncing behind it, and went up a tree.
Barnabas leapt from the sofa and dashed after the biscuit that had skidded under a wing chair.
He had been so often on the very point of getting his liberty, and still the cup was dashed from his lips. that I had promised to set him free, whenever he could precure an able negro as his substitute; although being a good workman, a single negro was by no means an adequate price in exchange. Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies
Her medal hopes were dashed by injury.
A second call pealed forth, and the towropes were cast off, oars splashed into the water, and, with a wild exulting yell from their occupants, the boats dashed for the shore, the men in them hurling themselves into the shallow water as the keels ground into the beach. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
The vertical temperature (solid lines) and dewpoint (dashed) profiles for a typical freezing rain event (left panel) versus last night (right hand panel). Why was there ice before snow Tues. night?
Another column dashed up her starboard side and carried off her smokestack.
With a sweep of one mighty fist, the daemon dashed the wounded warrior aside.
Workers wanting to claim compensation for injury to their feelings had their hopes dashed yesterday after a ruling by the highest court in the land.
His current home is end-of-terrace, pebbledashed; visitors describe it as 'modest'. Times, Sunday Times
The tidal wave dashed the ship against the rocks.
Wearing my T-shirt and undies, I dashed into their locker room hoping the guys were done changing.
The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it. The Man in the Twilight
I decided to make a "carom" of it, and nearly took the heads off a pair of horses, and the pole off the omnibus to which they were attached, as I dashed through. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
I scrambled into my dressing gown and half-dashed half-limped down the stairs.
The door flew open and in dashed a gentleman with a serviette round his neck.
Amanda, wrapped in her heavy raincoat, dashed out, making her way around or over the street peopler opening her stride as she sought to avoid the water rushing along the gutter. Black Blade
When, however, the little insignificant figure we have described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination. The Talisman
The delay in the programme has dashed Japan's hopes of commercial success in space.
And its history is pebbledashed with scandal, from ball-tampering to spot-fixing, from underarm bowling to underhand dealings. The Sun
It looks like doodles he dashed off when he was a teenager.
The boat was dashed repeatedly against the rocks.
People dashed about collecting them and queued for her to sign them when she came down. Times, Sunday Times
SO as the queen had Mayed and all her knights, all were bedashed with herbs, mosses and flowers, in the best manner and freshest. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished! A Desperate Character
Naturally, I dashed back to the car, and promptly wrenched my ankle.
So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again — and now I saw that it was water. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
The horses dashed out of burning stable.
West of Scotland supplied with work by a benevolent aristocrat, his expectation that a grateful peasantry will bless their benefactor is rudely dashed (II, 32). Notes on 'Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism'
It has much to do with the lottery of life and its unforgiving nature - about fate, synchronicity, and whether what was, was supposed to be; of hopes realized and dashed, and possibly about self-delusion and being generally perplexed.
Meanwhile, Steve dashed to Ronnie, who was dangling headfirst from the passenger door.
Not being able to stand it a moment longer, she sprang out of the reeds and dashed toward her sibling, enveloping him in a very wet embrace.
Servants would probably warn them but if there was an outside staircase and his men dashed up -?
The next day Wickliffe dashed off another letter to Polk with the news, through Sherman, that Jones had indeed discountenanced the plan. A Country of Vast Designs
Contestants dashed to close deals using fax machines in airless offices. Times, Sunday Times
Off in the distance the trees rustled and a glint of sunlight dashed off a metallic surface.
This suggested a rapid resolution, only for those hopes to be dashed when the mission turns out to have come terribly close to catastrophe.
She phoned her boyfriend who lived down the road and he dashed to her aid.
[P] ulling out the cabinets, there was such a great deal of noise that … he panicked and dashed out of the building. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
They had their championship hopes dashed by a 3-1 defeat.
Then they stroke at him one after an other, and though he fell to the ground at the second blow, yet they left him not till they had cut and pashed out his braines, and dashed them about vpon the church pauement. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Eustace instantly let go, and Peter stood for a second staring down at the two red rings round his wrists, then, as Eustace turned unconcernedly away, dashed at his back and pommelled it. Queensland Cousins
That feeling was unceremoniously dashed that evening when I found out about the chicken pox.
Police, alerted by a motorist who dashed to a phone box, organised a replacement ambulance.
He dashed around like a bat out of hell.
He dashed a cup down in a temper.
As he heard the clatter of hoofs behind him he looked around and saw a dozen red-skins coming in pursuit, and felt confident that he must have dashed by an ambush they were preparing for him, by suddenly changing his course and riding _around_ instead of _through_ a canyon. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
Solid arrows indicate direction of water flow; dashed lines indicate delineation of different regions.
He made as much clear in a letter, dashed off in anger after a critic had dared read his "Glagolitic Mass," first performed at the same concert in Prague as the Sinfonietta, as a sign that Janáček was finally becoming pious in his old age. Fanfares in the Face of Fascism
Of course my hopes that this was the end to the whole business were dashed when E. stashed me in a plywood hunting blind with a can of Sterno and some matches and said he'd be back when he heard me shoot.
He dashed a cup down in a temper.
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination. Round the World in Seven Days
As he arrived he saw neighbours being forced back from the house by the intense heat of the inferno, and dashed towards the end terrace house without stopping to put on any protective fireproof clothing or his breathing gear.
Colotes therefore has bedashed and bespattered himself and his master with that dirt, in which he says those lie who maintain that things are not more of one quality than another. Essays and Miscellanies
The plans were almost dashed when lorry driver Daniel, 23, injured his knee and scuppered his chances of running the race.
Dmitri waited impatiently for Nikolai and Rogachev to open the accessway, then dashed ahead of them to begin opening boxes, flinging their contents out onto the deck. I Don’t Understand ?
Ellen dashed from the convertible and went to speak to the police.
In the map of Sc-like genes, the solid line represents cloned sequences; the dashed line shows an uncloned region.
Two North Korean men, who had previously dashed into a consulate building, were also forcibly removed by Chinese police.
He dashed out of the building, shoving past anyone and anything, his only goal to reach home.
The solid line represents feeding group 1, while the dashed line represents feeding group 2.
Yap dashed in circles around the clearing, squeaking excitedly, although this was normal Yap behavior.
Suddenly, he was interrupted by a big, exuberant kiss - from his wife, Mary, who had dashed from the side of Grand Av. Heroes or Villains?
There were legs flying in all directions as Moby dashed around on the front lawn of Bradley's smart surgery near Harrow.
The delay in the programme has dashed Japan's hopes of commercial success in space.
She grabbed the note from Sarah's hand, being careful not to tear it, and dashed out the front door.
As he arrived he saw neighbours being forced back from the house by the intense heat of the inferno, and dashed towards the end terrace house without stopping to put on any protective fireproof clothing or his breathing gear.
The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
Any hopes Wasps had of upsetting that plan were dashed by an England flyhalf almost forgotten in the blitz of publicity surrounding their own. The Sun
But before sternway could be got on the boat, the infuriated monster made a sudden turn, dashed upon and stove it into fragments. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
But the hopes of the resistance movement - 80 percent Communist - were dashed.
Louis wheeled around, took a camelhair brush from a copper pan of orange paint, and dashed a heart on the back of her hand. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
He dashed to the bathroom and was sick again.
He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Ticker) -- Curtis Martin dashed through the snow into some pretty exclusive company. USATODAY.com
We spun, whizzed, dashed, leaped, "cavorted;" we did whatever a birch running the gantlet of whirlpools and breakers may do, except the fatal finality of a somerset. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Daughtry dashed into the cabin, came back with a pillow and three sheets, and, using the first as a pad and knotting the last together in swift weaver's knots, he left the Ancient Mariner safe and soft and took Michael back into his own arms. CHAPTER XV
The announcement dashed hopes of an early end to the crisis.
After our plan to snorkel Wednesday was cruelly dashed by a huge thunderstorm, today we finally made it snorkeling.
Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen, the dusty blue-grey sky was covered in clouds the colour of charcoal, rain was bucketing down and a flash of lightning dashed across the sky.
The door flew open and in dashed a gentleman with a serviette round his neck.
she dashed out leaving the bar unattended
Hopes that the French would make a clean sweep at the Games were dashed.
A sumptuous Russian sleigh drawn by two splendid black horses, with a statuesque driver in ebony handling the ribbons, attracted the attention of the crowd as it dashed down the avenue and paused near the capitol steps. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
My hopes were quickly dashed, though, as the play's first act played out stagnantly. Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Pavement Reunion, Of Montreal, Me, Myself, and I, The Little Foxes, and the Moth
But his hopes of success were dashed by the scenario unfolding behind him. Times, Sunday Times
The walls and the ways would have stood -- it is we who have left not one stone upon another, and restored its pathlessness to the desert; the great cathedrals of old religion would have stood -- it is we who have dashed down the carved work with axes and hammers, and bid the mountain-grass bloom upon the pavement, and the sea-winds chant in the galleries. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
The red martagon grows abundantly on our plains; the dog's tooth violet, _Erythronium_, with its spotted leaves and bending yellow blossom, delicately dashed with crimson spots within, and marked with fine purple lines on the outer part of the petal, proves a great attraction in our woods, where these plants increase: they form a beautiful bed; the leaves come up singly, one from each separate tuber. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
The prawn trawler skipper dashed to the harbour where he keeps his boat.
Hopes of winning millions of pounds worth of grant aid were dashed for sports organisations across the country yesterday.
She dashed off a quick letter.
Again, solid lines are for mutators and dashed lines for nonmutators.
He dashed off to lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.
The road smoked in the twilight with children driving home cattle from the fields; and a pair of mounted stride-legged women, hat and cap and all, dashed past me at a hammering trot from the canton where they had been to church and market. Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
The Phliasians escorted their retreating foes a little way up the steep, and then turning off dashed along the road beside the walls, making for the Pellenians and those with them; whereupon the Theban, perceiving the haste of the Phliasians, began racing with his infantry to outspeed them and bring succour to the Pellenians. Hellenica
The eggs, two in number, of a dull grey-green, closely and in part confluently dashed with streaks of dusky brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Olive dashed into the room, grabbed her bag, and ran out again.
Red squirrels dashed from branch to branch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
I bedashed a salad with pepper before dinner.
Contestants dashed to close deals using fax machines in airless offices. Times, Sunday Times
Vertical dashed lines enclose periods of contemporaneous high lake levels and elevated geothermal activity on rift volcanoes.
People dashed about collecting them and queued for her to sign them when she came down. Times, Sunday Times
Cows lowed in their fields and dogs barked as children dashed through the street, weaving their way through the people that were now out.
The average values for the whole family are indicated with a solid line for identity and dashed line for similarity.
The front door of the pebbledashed house had been damaged by the raid. Times, Sunday Times
He nearly collapsed in relief as his little sister burst from her hiding place and dashed away into the forest.
A passing car dashed mud all over us.
This is nothing compared to pavements, pebbledashed with flattened grey blobs. Times, Sunday Times
I said to the students, and, mad with anxiety, I took the elevator down, dashed out into the street, crossed on the run, and went into Adriana's house.
He dashed down his sword and picked up a revolver.
There are also a few hulking pebbledashed 1930s monsters, some as large as 7,000 sq ft. Times, Sunday Times
The dashed lines demarcate the zone of dying cells.
He dashed into the Portakabin, grabbed the telephone and dialled. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
One of the single-masted vessels had slipped its mooring and as Phoebe watched it was dashed against the harbor wall. EVERVILLE
Hopes that they would be found alive were dashed as poor weather hampered rescuers. Times, Sunday Times
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
Then it dashed to the ground near me, dug under a leaf, and pulled up a damp spruce cone.
Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
In ordinary circumstances a difficult enough task; in the circumstances of Sunday's defeat, with the cup of victory within reach only to be dashed from the grasp, Holmes faces an exceeding tough task.
There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination. Round the World in Seven Days
Mac squeezed through the door and dashed out into the sunlight after his prize.
SACRAMENTO, CA (The Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) -- Ralph Addison's dream of competing in the 12th annual One-Legged Ass-Kicking Contest, held every year at the McLatchy Fairgrounds in Sacramento, California, was dashed this past weekend, when it was learned he possessed not one, but two legs, a clear violation of the event's long-established bylaws. The Sportsman's Daily: Two-Legged Modesto Man Disqualified from One-Legged Ass-Kicking Contest
The goalkeeper had to react quickly again to smother the dropped ball as Kevin Drinkell dashed in.
I bedashed a salad with pepper before dinner.
Realising that she had to get to the hospital she dashed across the muddy grass, her feet skidding on the dampness.
Contestants dashed to close deals using fax machines in airless offices. Times, Sunday Times
Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
The force of the blast dashed him against the wall of the cave.
When Sara and I came back from New York, I'd brought him some cinnamon raisin bagels, and then dashed across town to hand them off to him (even though he was in a meeting, and couldn't chat) while they were still fresh. Breakfast in Bed
Michael Blackmore's formative years were spent with far too many comics resulting in dashed dreams as repeated attempts to gain superpowers only resulted in embarrassing stories told to the doctor. MIND MELD: The Best Superhero Movie and TV Show
As he dashed from the Capitol, Emanuel told reporters he would communicate the issues raised in the meeting to President Obama. Obama aides head to the Hill to assess health care reform status
There were a few times where hopes were found and then dashed, followed by sniffles throughout the audience.
In the early summer of 1967, Banzhaf dashed off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission the agency responsible for enforcing the fairness doctrine complaining that a New York TV station was dedicating disproportional airtime to tobacco commercials with no opposing antitobacco commercials. The Emperor of All Maladies
How many times had I had my hopes dashed by some handsome, dashing man?
This hope was dashed when she walked into the dining room to find him still sullen and sulky.
She dashed off to keep an appointment.
Cold shot and kentledge were dashed upon the boats, in the hopes of sinking them; while the carronades poured a destructive fire upon such boats as could be reached by their shot. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
They began running again, broke cover and dashed towards the road.
Firefighters were called to the pebbledashed house at 5am yesterday after neighbours spotted smoke. The Sun
The rain dashed against the panes of the berime, as we rode past the grim-faced monarch of the "misty shroud. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
I dashed outside and wolfed the meat down as fast as I could.
Set dashed underscore When the dependent clause comes first in the sentence, a comma is necessary. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
With a precipitous nudge of the memory she dashed to the door and helloed to the fast retreating figure. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
Yet any notion that these are entirely conventional and commercial transactions has been dashed by the terms and structure of the deals. Times, Sunday Times
Campese, international rugby's most prolific try scorer, dashed straight to the hospital's intensive care unit after arriving in ANC Daily News Briefing
If her conduct was forward, well, her connubial expectations had been dashed by the recreant Popplewell, and the arrival of Flashy with whiskers rampant must have seemed like the answer to a randy young matron's prayer. THE NUMBERS
But Dolly swerved from the road and dashed down a grassy slope yellowed with innumerable mariposa lilies. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
What was hilarious in 1999 now reads like something dashed off to pay the school fees. Times, Sunday Times

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