An urgent journey undertaken out of a desire to relieve suffering.
the mercy dash by ambulance from Carlow to Kilkenny tragically proved in vain
Example sentencesExamples
- Feel free to call me any time you want a mercy dash to the Italian restaurant.
- The petition calls for a change in the law to protect crews on mercy dashes.
- She wrapped the boy in a blanket and said she was going to make a mercy dash to the hospital.
- He was on a mercy dash to a friend in trouble.
- My mother had travelled up from Kent, a mercy dash to support the children and me in a time of crisis.
- I certainly appreciated Dad's mercy dash that night.
- She performed a mercy dash to get her seriously ill father to hospital several hundred miles away.
- The coastal minehunter had just completed a mercy dash from an outlying island some 140 kilometres away.
- We took it in turns to make mercy dashes to the iced water dispenser.
- The cruise ship answered a midnight Mayday and altered course to make a mercy dash off the Dorset coast.