Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.