Example sentences for: hightail

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

  • Trappers in the American West noticed this, over a century ago, probably while hunting wild horses, and invented the expression to hightail it , to leave in a hurry, to make a fast gataway.”

  • One problem the author had to grapple with was the very identification of a word or phrase as Western: hightail it , for example, refers to “mustangs, rabbits and other animals [that] raise their tails high and flee quickly when they sense danger.

  • Since there is no way to instruct a strange woman to please hightail it to the ladies' room and wash off all that Chanel No.


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