scurries

Example Sentences

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A few minutes' walk from the Citizens Advice office, Shania is sitting at the edge of a park feeding her newborn baby, while her older child, a toddler, scurries nearby.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

“Shielded by her security, Britney scurries in like a frightened deer,” Weiss writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

But despite this convincing show, Romy is merely faking it, a detail we learn moments later when she scurries off to the privacy of her office.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

Instead, she’s poised and sure-footed, musing about the possibility of romance as Getz’s saxophone scurries and spirals around her.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

I’m halfway up the path to his front door when Lou Ann scurries out of her house like she’s been watching for me.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko