scampering

Example Sentences

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From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

The Galicians capitalised on Barcelona's high defensive line, sending Sergio Carreira scampering in behind and he held his nerve to beat Wojciech Szczesny.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

Twenty-five days of gripping Test cricket came down to a one-armed man painfully scampering 22 yards of south London turf.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025

“I know where to take you,” said the rat, and he started scampering down the tunnel.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown