How to Use dash off in a Sentence

dash off

verb
  • Both cougars stepped out and dashed off.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The new mom dashed off to get Anna.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • These plein air studies are dashed off quickly.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The students dash off to their dorm rooms or dining hall, and wait to do the homework until midnight.
    — Sean Cho Ayres, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The glamorous pair left the building and dashed off in a Cadillac for their honeymoon.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Otherwise, you people might be tempted to dash off a bunch of nasty remarks in the comments section.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • By the second half, Chawni was dashing off video clips of his travels to an editor for editing and posting later.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Fliers trying to make a super-tight connection A seat near the front of the cabin would be best for dashing off the plane and getting to your next gate.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2025
  • Once finished, Caesar would dash off the stage, ostensibly to prepare for the opening sketch but also to play someone besides himself.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • In one especially heated sequence, Catherine, overcome with lust, dashes off to the moors and pleasures herself ferociously against the rocks.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • She was blessed with an unstinting energy and buoyancy that had her dashing off postcards far and wide, answering e-mails with improvised poetry, and cold-calling younger writers to offer encouragement.
    — Pico Iyer, Air Mail, 2 May 2026
  • While the weary court composer is buried in the bureaucracy of state music, teaching scores of pupils, serving on endless committees and composing anthems and choral pieces, Mozart is dashing off works of startling originality while acting like a complete goofball.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026

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