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• sometimes dash is also used colloquially to refer to a hyphen or minus sign.
• Add a dash of vinegar
• Aren't we full of dash this morning?
• The dash clock said 2:38 when[...] I turned off a dirt road[...].
• The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
• Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law[...]
• The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
• I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
• Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
• Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
• Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
• I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.
• He dashed across the field.
• I have to dash now. See you soon.
• He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
• "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
• Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
• The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
• If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
• On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
• Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
• Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
• Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
• He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
• "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
• to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture
• I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
• The very source and fount of day / Is dashed with wandering isles of night.
• The recipe calls for a pinch of this and a dash of that.