WordNet
v. depart in a hurry [syn: rush off]
Usage examples of "rush away".
It will be the first time in my life I don't sleep in my own bed and part of me can't wait to rush away.
The door slid shut, and Ansset closed his eyes to hide the tears as he felt the ground rush away as the palace came to meet him.
I look to it, to the south and the east, seeing the line of little lights rush away and be swallowed by this nightland, this behemoth that eats its citizens.
About halfway to Chocolate Weasel, we met head-on a rush away from that area.
He was squatting in a retreating tide, as he might have done at Tallinn or Odessa as a child, watching the mysterious, fascinating water rush away from him, leaving the froth of foam around him and the stretch of newly exposed wet sand in which shells sat up in little hollows.
She could only nod, dazed, numb, her whole body screaming for the interrupted fulfillment, as she saw him rush away.
As ring-shaped waves rush away from a stone dropped into a pond of still water, so the ocean reacted to the dreadful murmur of the island.
Somebody hit her on the back of the neck so hard that the ground seemed to flip over and rush away into the sky.