Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
dashing
IPA transcription: [d'æʃɪŋ]
adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
dashing, gallant
Meaning:
lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
Usage examples
Like a great express train, roaring, flashing, dashing head-long
General Bumble is one of the most dashing, brilliant fellows of the day."
The colonel could trust him where a more dashing officer might be in danger.
I seed the world at that time somewhat, certainly, and many ways of strange dashing life.
'Don't let's burgle--I mean do daring and dashing rescue acts--till we've given her a chance.
Jane was purchased by a dashing young man, who had just come into the possession of a large fortune.
Old Mother Nature verified his wisdom by sending a dashing shower, but he cared not at all for a wetting.
Dashing frantically around to the back door, he threw himself against it, shouting to know if any one was within.
Malcolm and Keith, with guilty faces, went dashing up the stairs, and the whole party followed them at a respectful distance.
When I reached the landing, dashing out of the front room he rushed into the one at the back,--then through a door at the side.