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To ensure your pup doesn’t make a dash for it during the Fourth of July, the shelter recommends keeping them indoors as much as possible during the holiday.
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Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 July 2024
Grind out politics; absorb science; wallow in fiction; walk about London; observe the crowds; calculate the loss of life and limb;…and then, when the whole being is red and brittle as sandstone in the sun, make a dash for The Faery Queen and give yourself up to it.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
Follow the squirrel strategy for some time, and then make a dash for it in some direction.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
Participants were eager to make a dash for the multi-colored loot that sprinkled the church’s front lawn.
—David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
If history is any guide, investors could make a dash for US debt in the event that Trump does the unthinkable.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2020
Skiers who live in the shadows of Scottish peaks—or even in the cities of the country’s central belt, two to three hours away—can look out their windows and, if conditions seem right, make a dash for the hills.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2017
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Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 July 2024
Grind out politics; absorb science; wallow in fiction; walk about London; observe the crowds; calculate the loss of life and limb;…and then, when the whole being is red and brittle as sandstone in the sun, make a dash for The Faery Queen and give yourself up to it.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
Follow the squirrel strategy for some time, and then make a dash for it in some direction.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
Participants were eager to make a dash for the multi-colored loot that sprinkled the church’s front lawn.
—David Sharos, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
If history is any guide, investors could make a dash for US debt in the event that Trump does the unthinkable.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2020
Skiers who live in the shadows of Scottish peaks—or even in the cities of the country’s central belt, two to three hours away—can look out their windows and, if conditions seem right, make a dash for the hills.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2017
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“Make a dash for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20dash%20for. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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