Taking off quickly

Usage examples of bolting.

Bolting, 139 Rita Clay Estrada she headed into the bedroom, then dived and slid across the wood floor until she was under the bed.

Detective Bruno Sancino slipped the pizza delivery boy a double sawbuck, told him to keep the change and then gave the seventh floor hallway a quick look-see before closing the door and bolting it shut.

His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.

She had sat at the top of a low h l, holding Bounder still to keep him from bolting.

She sniffed it, drank a little more, then surprised him by bolting the balance like someone quaffing a shot of whiskey.

Trojans scattered in panic, bolting left and right while the fighting son of Atreus led Odysseus through the onslaught, bracing him with an arm till a reinsman drove his team and car up close.

As it is, we are merely bolting our lives--gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in--because awareness of our own existence is so superficial and so narrow that nothing seems to us more boring than simple being.

Even Rolin, a known whipster, had all he could do to keep his blacks from bolting.

Bolting back down the walk, he mounted his snorting Andalusian, and rode off into the smoke-filled darkness.

The sound shocked the air as a nighthorse broke through the thin screen of bystanders, not bolting uncontrolled into the dusk, but treading catfooted, shaking his mane and throwing off such a cold feeling of ill that senior riders crowded each other to get out of its path.

As usual, the old ditz came at a run, bolting out the door of the student center, head down against the rain.

Finally he stepped in, determined to escape Eberhard Fearing, bolting himself into the stainless-steel compartment and noting in the mirror how unlike himself he looked, neat enough in sport coat and tie but unusually pale and somehow tired, as though this manufactured air were threatening his very flesh, drawing out needed chemicals and replacing them with evil solvents made in New Jersey.

Sandcastle, loose and excited, had found his way into one of the paths between the larger paddocks and from his bolting speed must have taken the rails to be those of a racecourse.

Rage from bolting down into the ruins or attacking the frater as well, he noticed too late when the wind turned and the hounds stilled abruptly, unnaturally.

He caught a glimpse of a black figure bolting down the street, straight at the valve pit, and then there was a second purple explosion, followed by the thump of a thermite grenade erupting down in the pit, the explosion flaring into a brilliant white bolus of sparks and flame.