darting

Example Sentences

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Darting with a football in his youth around the mean Scottish streets of Easterhouse - at the time the centre of Glasgow's notorious ganglands - McKechnie dreamed of playing for Rangers.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

"With enormous size, a powerful bite force and stereoscopic vision, T. rex was a formidable predator, but it did not reign uncontested. Darting alongside was Nanotyrannus -- a leaner, swifter and more agile hunter."

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Darting nimbly between her protagonists’ perspectives while making it abundantly clear where her sympathies lie, Domont transforms a couple’s bedroom and a corporate boardroom into brutally complementary war zones.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2023

Darting in from the left, James intelligently picked out Wilson with a square pass.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2019

Darting through the huge crowd, across the muddy lawn, past Dave and his crew, around the massive saw, beneath the stump grinder, and finally, triumphantly up my trunk, was none other than Flashlight.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate