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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of beeline.

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Examples

  • I beelined it back towards the house because it would not have been a fun time if he had been startled by me.

    The "only real option"! tragic_elegance 2009

  • The manager beelined toward Gideon and Tillman, a tight smile on his face.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The manager beelined toward Gideon and Tillman, a tight smile on his face.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The manager beelined toward Gideon and Tillman, a tight smile on his face.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • She left Yosemite and beelined it for the only other friend she had at the time who was into hooping, Stephinity, and they started Kaivalya in the Fall that year hooping on a double-wide sidewalk outside their favorite beatnik coffee shop in downtown Denver.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Shakti Sunfire: Inside The Hoop 2009

  • I beelined it back towards the house because it would not have been a fun time if he had been startled by me.

    The "only real option"! tragic_elegance 2009

  • The manager beelined toward Gideon and Tillman, a tight smile on his face.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • There is a great apocryphal story about Lang, how he met with Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels for an amiable chat and thereafter immediately beelined it in the middle of the night.

    Lost Metropolis Negative Found in Argentina « Skid Roche 2008

  • They beelined for the bed and the motionless man half-buried in pillows.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • Instead, he beelined to my refrigerator to retrieve an ice-cold Heineken and was now lounging on my sofa as if he was performing another take in a beer commercial.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

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