Examples of mad dash in a Sentence
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Nothing was going to stop Ice on a mad dash around the bases.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
Hell, schools like UCF weren’t even in existence — let alone cashing $40 million a year TV checks and investing it back into their program in the mad dash to make the College Football Playoff.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
But now the agreement will set off a mad dash on Capitol Hill to approve the extension, called a continuing resolution or CR, before the clock strikes midnight on Friday and sets off even a brief shutdown.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
Instead of a mad dash to the store after work, plan ahead with these delicious confections that even Aphrodite and Cupid are sure to approve of.
—Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
This pressure-cooker of a show is a nail-biting, crave-worthy mad dash to the finish line.
—EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
A week later, Traffic—a book by former editor-in-chief Ben Smith, about the mad dash to reinvent digital media during this specific period—was published to enthusiastic reviews, its release bookmarking the end to a decade colored by omnivorous virality.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2023
Now, though, with the strike over, a mad dash has begun to relieve — or at least support — those folks with actors who, under normal circumstances, would have already been omnipresent at film festivals, junkets, screenings, Q&As and receptions, not to mention in the press.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
Americans’ bank accounts are stabilizing after inflation shock Come 2022, the Fed was in a mad dash to hoist rates and catch up with inflation that soared to 40-year highs, sped along by broken supply chains and the energy shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
Hell, schools like UCF weren’t even in existence — let alone cashing $40 million a year TV checks and investing it back into their program in the mad dash to make the College Football Playoff.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
But now the agreement will set off a mad dash on Capitol Hill to approve the extension, called a continuing resolution or CR, before the clock strikes midnight on Friday and sets off even a brief shutdown.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
Instead of a mad dash to the store after work, plan ahead with these delicious confections that even Aphrodite and Cupid are sure to approve of.
—Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
This pressure-cooker of a show is a nail-biting, crave-worthy mad dash to the finish line.
—EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
A week later, Traffic—a book by former editor-in-chief Ben Smith, about the mad dash to reinvent digital media during this specific period—was published to enthusiastic reviews, its release bookmarking the end to a decade colored by omnivorous virality.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2023
Now, though, with the strike over, a mad dash has begun to relieve — or at least support — those folks with actors who, under normal circumstances, would have already been omnipresent at film festivals, junkets, screenings, Q&As and receptions, not to mention in the press.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
Americans’ bank accounts are stabilizing after inflation shock Come 2022, the Fed was in a mad dash to hoist rates and catch up with inflation that soared to 40-year highs, sped along by broken supply chains and the energy shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
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“Mad dash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mad%20dash. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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