How to Use mad dash in a Sentence

mad dash

noun
  • There is no rush to be first chair, no mad dash to the top.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This alerted the chef, who made a mad dash for the door.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • The final mad dash was a long time coming.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Nothing was going to stop Ice on a mad dash around the bases.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • In about two months her babies will emerge from that sand and make a mad dash to the water.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Bregman made the mad dash home to score the sixth Red Sox run.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Once hatched, baby sea turtles must make the mad dash from their nest to the water.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • As the mad dash became public, there was one question on many people’s minds.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • The anxious, mad dash to opening night works for the character.
    — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But instead of embarking on a mad dash to score the biggest markdowns, just scroll down.
    — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Fans were quick to notice that Laurie didn’t look back for her friends and made a mad dash to save herself.
    — Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Part of the goal is to slow you down and make Epic Universe feel like less of a mad dash from ride to ride.
    — Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • This pressure-cooker of a show is a nail-biting, crave-worthy mad dash to the finish line.
    — EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Since the best way to conserve your freezer’s chill is to keep the door closed, have someone time your mad dash for sugar.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, Arnold, Yeoburn, and Julyan were in a mad dash to find new money.
    — Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Science cannot be left on the side of the road in the mad dash to uncover some great conspiracy.
    — Sean Kirkpatrick, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Ahmadi remembers the mad dash to leave home and the days spent waiting to cross the border.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The mad dash on ingredients can also shape sales at restaurants and grocery stores.
    — Kelly Tyko, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Lee’s mad dash was the rarest of quetzal feathers in an otherwise drab capper to the four-game series.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • What follows is the inevitable mad dash to the nearest store where you’re confronted with a wall of bottles.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 5 Dec. 2023
  • What that means is a mad dash to get in as many big races as possible in the first two weekends of its 19-day meeting.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Now Smith is coaching in those same playoffs after guiding the Kings on a mad dash to a wild-card berth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The final days of legislative sessions in Kentucky are a mad dash to the finish line.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This final week scramble will have far-reaching implications in the mad dash for a playoff berth.
    — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • In a mad dash to the end zone, the Dons’ Jonathan Solomon recovered the ball for a touchdown.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Finke again tried his signature move — hanging back before blitzing past the leaders in a mad dash to the final wall.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The mad dash to put things in or play with the toilet bowl water if the bathroom door is open is a universal toddler pastime.
    — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • One of them included him making that mad dash to New Orleans at the city’s busiest and most booked time of year.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 May 2024
  • The period ended with a mad dash out of the banking system that few could have foreseen just weeks earlier.
    — Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In a way, the more stringent the timelines, the bigger and faster is the mad dash to qualify for tax breaks—even if fewer will be built overall.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 July 2025

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