Examples of hotfoot in a Sentence
you'd better hotfoot it to the bus stop if you're going to catch the bus
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Once the bear was in the lead, and next time the dogs were hotfooting it out front, tails between their legs and heads over their shoulders, egging the bear on.
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Jim Rearden, Outdoor Life, 5 Nov. 2025
Then, the boxes and me are off, hotfooting down the pink staircase to Elaine and Lynn.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
With a 10-hour flight and seven-hour time difference meaning attendees couldn’t hotfoot it between ceremonies, the broadcast from the U.K. ensured that nominees including Lady Gaga, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur were able to be in two places at (almost) the same time.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
As a demolitions expert, Daniel Craig hotfoots the story, delightfully, in the role of Joe Bang, adding the right degree of menace beneath the surface.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
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Jim Rearden, Outdoor Life, 5 Nov. 2025
Then, the boxes and me are off, hotfooting down the pink staircase to Elaine and Lynn.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
With a 10-hour flight and seven-hour time difference meaning attendees couldn’t hotfoot it between ceremonies, the broadcast from the U.K. ensured that nominees including Lady Gaga, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur were able to be in two places at (almost) the same time.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
As a demolitions expert, Daniel Craig hotfoots the story, delightfully, in the role of Joe Bang, adding the right degree of menace beneath the surface.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
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“Hotfoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hotfoot. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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hotfoot
1 of 2 adverb
hot·foot
ˈhät-ˌfu̇t 
: in haste
hotfoot
2 of 2 verb
: to go quickly : hurry
hotfoot it home
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