Sentence examples for got dashed from inspiring English sources

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Here though, instead of encouraging her daughter to dream big, the narrator is singing about herself, wondering at what point her own hopes got dashed: "Once you're burned you're not the same/ You tend to shy from the flame/ I hate to think she's given up her dreams".

"It's difficult to know what happened — whether something funny happened on the way to the plenum, as it were, or whether there were high hopes that got dashed, or whether it was all smoke," Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based analyst of Communist Party policies, said in an interview on Sunday.

"But it is also the story of those whose hopes and dreams and investments got dashed.

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The links between this meeting and Trump, and between Kilimnik and the Russian government, are sufficiently vague that they get dashed gray lines.

"Once you get used to the idea that you won't get dashed against rocks, it's quite delightful," says Dom, the photographer.

In this age of Internet dreams that get dashed, they plan to hit the jackpot through the transparency and efficiency of a web-based exchange.Almost half of world trade is "financed", or transacted with borrowed money.

The verb to dash has a meaning of "to splash, spatter," and the board out front is to protect the driver who doesn't want to get dashed by the puddles up ahead.

And Tanios Bekaii-Saab, a researcher at James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Ohio, said the study must be confirmed in large randomized clinical trials — where many hopes get dashed, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

"Once you get used to the idea that you won't get dashed against rocks, it's quite delightful," says Dom. Walkers from the cliff top above us look down as we swim between rocks and around Cormorant Corner.

As for the UK cards, they never get dashed off before Christmas week, and if you happen to live in rural north Herefordshire you might even spot me trudging through the snow today to a postbox, for one desperate final fling of envelopes.

Review: 'High Hopes' get dashed on Springsteen's latest album.

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