Used in a Sentence

dashed

How to use dashed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for dashed.

Editorial note

But I had such high hopes for the place and they were utterly dashed on the rocks.

Examples23
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dashed gathered in one view.

adjective

having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dashed.

adjective

having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line"

Example sentences

1

But I had such high hopes for the place and they were utterly dashed on the rocks.

2

Zoom in a little and you'll see the as-filed flight plan in a light blue dashed line.

3

More dashed hopes. And on the whole a better economic outcome.

4

If that's the case, don't let emotions of hopes-dashed weigh you down. Focus on your business and create more value.

5

I read this and dashed to the kitchen to make myself a midnight snack. It was actually remarkably good.

6

I don't really have much to add here except that I was afraid the article, which I dashed off as all that stuff was happening, would come off as whiny. Hope that isn't the case.

7

This is a running theme: all the red dashed lines are pedestrian rights of way that Google simply doesn't know about. What if you wanted to cross the railway line on foot?

8

Leave a dashed border around where the question was. I often find it helpful to highlight the drop-able areas as well, but this may not make sense for this use case.

9

Smart people silently-speculating are like Homer's sirens: sounds good until you're dashed on the rocks.

10

So I appreciate the technical innovation behind this, but I think they're likely to get dashed upon the rocks. It's a tough space.

11

Let me simplify my comment, which was simultaneously prolix and a little dashed off. I have 2 points: 1.

12

- Get rid of the dashed border bottom between threads and posts. It's too visually intrusive. Change it from dashed to dotted, instead.

13

And how I think I know that is, I imagine the kinds of comments that would be on HN if we were writing about an investment banker's dashed dreams. They'd start with "fuck you", too, but they'd be aimed at the author of the article.

14

If you ever want your space dreams dashed, read Glassdoor reviews. We just hired an ex-SpaceXer who loved the mission but hated sacrificing his life as a 20-something to working 70-hour weeks.

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My hopes were dashed when I realized that this wasn't a new type of optical hard disc, like holographic drive technology or something.

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My expectations were totally dashed. Rather than spelling the end of TM2, open sourcing it resulted in a new-found momentum for the project.

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What if your girlfriend's dad decided to run you down in his car--again, running away is dashed. Hopefully she can find a mate who has more spine and isn't cowed so easily by the thought of other humans with possession of means of force.

18

You call it incompetence; I call it dashed optimism. MIT had faith that its community would behave responsibly in an open environment without a lot of rules and barriers.

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A line of code that isn't as clear as it could be in an ipython notebook he probably dashed off in an hour is somehow a reflection on his generosity of spirit? I think you need to recheck your expectations.

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And dashed words unfortunately have the stigma of opening up some crappy add referencing the word. Consider instead a little edit carrot next to the word and clicking anywhere in the cell makes it editable.

21

Which makes me wonder why anyone would sink days or weeks of effort into a piece only to deliberately position it alongside every other dashed-off blog post. I think you can get immediate value just by doing what Patrick said: write a blog, but don't call it that.

22

It wasn't that strange for letters to be dashed off in short periods of time, and like with email, the amount of agonizing/revision/thought that was put into a particular letter varied greatly. On your latter worry, it seems like there's some of that with earlier eras' figures as well.

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View boxes don't seem to work, dashed lines, symbols, any kind of shape reüse in general; groups are ungrouped automatically, but apparently properties defined on groups are not propagated to child elements when ungrouping. And it manages to lock up Firefox and IE completely.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dashed in a sentence?

But I had such high hopes for the place and they were utterly dashed on the rocks.

What does dashed mean?

having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line"

What part of speech is dashed?

dashed is commonly used as adjective.