scud

The team looked at three types of freshwater animals -- two species of gammarid, or "scud," which is a small freshwater crustacean; one freshwater snail; and three aquatic insect species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2023

The seaweed algae can tower hundreds of feet above the ocean floor, providing protection and nutrients for scud, sea otters, snails, rockfish, anemones, eels, crabs, jellyfish and other marine life.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

Fleecy white clouds scud across a bright blue sky, providing enough intermittent shade to keep temperatures tolerable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2020

The Patriot system thought the scud was far from the barracks and did not fire.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2019

Below them a hook of land shrouded in the dark scud blowing down the shore and beyond that lying half over and awash the shape of a sailboat’s hull.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

What if Rabbi Matondo hadn't scudded an upright after an outrageous dart through the PSV defence?

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023

The ball scudded over the outstretched arms of American goalkeeper Zack Steffen and under the crossbar, sparking cheers from the sparse, happily stunned crowd.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

He climbed aboard a tractor to start planting his winter wheat crop under a blue sky scudded with white clouds.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2019

Rain lashed the hills that surround the hills to the south and east of Phokeng, eddies of dust scudded across the plain to the north and lightning flickered constantly above the platinum works.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 4, 2013

The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

With 10 in their last two - 15 in three if you include last week's Scottish Cup semi-final scudding of St Johnstone - you would fancy them to do that.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

But in summer the view from the opposite side is equally spectacular: the approach of moisture-laden monsoon clouds, scudding across the sky.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

In the quiet of evening, after competition has ended, the venue echoes with a scudding sound of practice throws and the heavy thunk of takeouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2022

Are the scudding clouds moving at the right speed?

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2019

As the scudding day passed overhead the dingy windows glowed and faded in ghostly retrograde.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner