Examples of dashed in a Sentence
Joy Dong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
The dashed red line shows smoothed observational data.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
But the path there isn’t yet clear, many backers say, and hydrogen has been a source of dashed hopes for years.
—Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 14 June 2022
But the cream-cheese shortage appears to have hit a particular nerve, capping a year of dashed hopes for a return to normal with another obstacle to enjoying even the tiniest of indulgences.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
Seconds later, two more dashed from the street toward several trash bags.
—New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
The dashed red lines shows the seven-day moving average.
—Cheri Mossburg and Amir Vera, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
Like practically everything else, COVID-19 dashed plans for the usual festival in 2020.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
Then there’s the dashed hope that working from home would lead to a reduction in driving.
—Doug Gordon, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
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Word History
circa 1889, in the meaning defined above
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“Dashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashed. Accessed 24 Sep. 2023.
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