English example sentences with "for dear life"

He ran away for dear life.

She held on to it for dear life.

She ran for dear life.

Mary held on to Tom for dear life when he took her for a spin on the back of his motorbike.

And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming, across the moor.

"Behold / Charybdis!" cries Anchises, "'tis the shore, / the dreaded rocks that Helenus foretold. / Row, comrades, for dear life, and let the oars catch hold."

Tom ran for dear life.

Tom held on to the rope for dear life.

Whatever happens, hold on for dear life.