Example sentences for: dashed

How can you use “dashed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Scheck, commentators agree, poked huge holes in the prosecution's claim that Woodward shook the baby and then dashed his head against a hard object.

  • (Hemingway dashed it off in ten days before submitting it to his publisher; he was deliberately trying to break his multi-book contract.)

  • There will come an advance—probably a single laboratory result—that breaks the camel's back and forces society to abandon that denial: to accept that the risk of getting one's hopes up and seeing them dashed is now outweighed by the risk of missing the AEV boat by inaction.

  • She is dashed by his flirtations (and more?)

  • The LAT says that prospects for enacting comprehensive campaign reform this year are pretty much dashed because on Monday the House leadership of Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey adopted rules requiring any such measure to pass, not by the simple majority that seemed in the offing, but by a two-thirds "super-majority."


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