scooch

Example Sentences

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Williams asks the kids to scooch around the middle of a table and think about what reminds them of “their person.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

For slit-like gaps too narrow to accommodate their wingspan, they scooch sideways through the slit, flapping their wings continually so as not to lose height.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

With the Swoop, an able patient can scooch into the magnet as if wriggling under a car’s bumper.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 22, 2023

Taking slow, sideways steps, the soldiers smoothly pinwheeled full circle, scooch by scooch, a single unit sweeping smoothly around with its precious burden in a rather tight space.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022

I could jam the chair up against the one door’s knob, and I’d have to scooch the table with the mirror over up against the other one.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis