Sentence examples for used to dash from inspiring English sources

"Those 2percentt used to dash off angry letters to the editor for your local paper," he said.

Her family and friends now receive more gifts, which she picks out at the airport minimalls she used to dash by, back in the day when she could leave the office 30 minutes before her flight and still make it.

The dog used to dash to the phone every time it rang & worry the cord, with the result that the repairman had to be called in about once a month.

Well, Thinks... certainly amounts to much more than another act of higher journalism; more than a reanimation of the ideas in Lodge's own The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), for example, or those lovely little vignettes he used to dash off for the Independent on Sunday and which were then collected in The Art of Fiction (1992), perhaps his finest work of criticism.

When I lived in Beirut, in the nineteen-eighties, I used to dash like mad along the museum crossing during occasional ceasefires to get supplies in the east, then hope that the ceasefire would last long enough for me to race back to the west.

He said that he passed up a career in New York City for the Bonac life, and that bottle-throwing helps keep him connected to simpler things, like the way he used to dash out of school as a child, grab his stashed shotgun and hunt pheasant.

This 20% enriched uranium is the feedstock that Iran could use to "dash" towards weapons grade material.

The controls are simple, and are only used to jump, run, dash, perform fighting moves, and use the "Hyper Suction" ability to collect nearby coins.

When in possession of either a fire flower or an ice flower, 1 is used both to dash and to shoot.

Bolted to the dash, or what used to be the dash, was a slab of aluminium studded with a dozen-odd gauges and toggle switches.

They share big ideas about national identity, a bit of what Keating used to call his "dash and elan".