How to Use mad dash in a Sentence

mad dash

noun

• 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
• Nothing was going to stop Ice on a mad dash around the bases.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
• Crush House is a mad dash, a game where every minute counts.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, Arnold, Yeoburn, and Julyan were in a mad dash to find new money.
  — Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
• Once hatched, baby sea turtles must make the mad dash from their nest to the water.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Making a mad dash from the TSA security line to your gate?
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 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
• The nine-game mad dash to the finish — and what the Twins hope is a postseason berth — began on Friday night in Boston.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2024
• This pressure-cooker of a show is a nail-biting, crave-worthy mad dash to the finish line.
  — EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
• As the mad dash became public, there was one question on many people’s minds.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• 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
• And there was a mad dash for supplies at a Home Depot in Clairemont, which temporarily ran out of bags and sand.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Heroics ensue, and there is a mad dash to keep her alive as Jackson and his colleagues attempt to get to the bottom of the kidnapping.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Instead of a mad dash to the store after work, plan ahead with these delicious confections that even Aphrodite and Cupid are sure to approve of.
  — Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
• The airline currently puts customers in one of three boarding groups and assigns a number, setting off a mad dash to check in a day before the flight.
  — Leslie Josephs,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 25 July 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
• 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
• Each other piece was a mad dash around town, a group effort for white button-downs and matching pants, scrounged up from Nordstroms and various thrift shops.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
• One mobile station was doing its part while making a mad dash across British Columbia.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2016
• The announcement comes as social media companies make a mad dash into AI.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• For most folks, Thanksgiving week means extra calories, more time with family and friends — and, beginning on Friday, the mad dash to finish shopping for Christmas and Hanukkah presents.
  — Vulture, 21 Nov. 2023
• Defensive ends and outside linebackers are usually in the business of trying to overpower (or run around) a tackle or tight end while making a mad dash to the quarterback.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Retailer Johnson admits that all this mad dash for product is a good problem to have, given that as much as 80% of Hazel & Olive’s monthly orders currently are for concert looks.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 27 May 2023
• The mad dash for a new director happened so fast that the opportunity was overwhelming, said Leterrier.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• When one resident's truck broke down in the mad dash to escape, forcing them to leave behind both the vehicle, two dogs and their litter of puppies behind, one emergency responder stepped up to save them.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 29 July 2024
• In 2017, a defecting North Korean soldier stumbled across nearby, under heavy gunfire, in a mad dash for sanctuary.
  — Foster Klug, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• With the president’s historic decision to take himself out of contention for a second term and Vice President Kamala Harris hurtling toward the nomination, there is a mad dash by everyone to set the terms of the new fight.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024