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
• Here’s a radical thought: The 4th quarter doesn’t have to be a mad dash to the finish line.
  — Laurie Arron, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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 mad dash on ingredients can also shape sales at restaurants and grocery stores.
  — Kelly Tyko, Axios, 20 Oct. 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
• As play was set to resume, however, the rodent made a mad dash for the end zone, causing a brief stoppage and drawing the attention of every single person in the stadium.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024