skedaddled

past tense of skedaddle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skedaddled
Verb
  • One deputy retreated while two of them fired their guns, hitting Williams and Lane, authorities said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Each apartment was different from the next, and the vacant unit (one daughter retreated to a Greek island) had views of the sea.
    Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The mufti fled Mandatory Palestine but continued to orchestrate terrorism from his initial base of operations in Beirut.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Jurors at the trial in Fort Pierce, Florida, heard from the Secret Service agent who confronted an armed Routh on the golf course before Routh fled, and a witness who identified Routh to police.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Also, treat operational maintenance as a growth lever, not as tech debt, because speed is achieved when reliability is baked into the process, not bolted on.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the plants have bolted or gone to seed or withered in the heat.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Having escaped disaster and gauged the full extent of American self-deterrence, Putin began putting pressure on Ukraine’s neighbors and suppliers.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One snake got tear-gassed by police, then shot at five times, and still escaped—only to finally meet its match with a garden hoe (obviously).
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Skedaddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skedaddled. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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