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Life moves pretty fast when your heart beats 1,200 times a minute, and the plot of “The Shrew Detective” moves briskly as Minerva and Tenacity scurry between clues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Once one side has been effectively tagged with responsibility, they’ll scurry for a way out.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025

The home side were the happier to scurry to the dressing room.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

How quickly or slowly can the chyrons listing adverse reactions scurry across your screen?

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

He stooped to swish his hand in the water, making the minnows scurry away.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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

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

When the pedestrian signal flashes a red hand, the squad bursts into laughter and scurries to the sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

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

An arras hanging on a wall billows, as if stirred by a strong wind, and from behind it scurries a creature with the face of my father.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Trading slowed to a crawl as brokers and clerks scurried to grab the money as it fell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Jacob Bethell made an entertaining 55 and Brook a well-placed 53 for England, but Nepal's batting was on a par as they swept and scurried.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

Trilobites scurried across the seafloor among dense clusters of shelled mollusks.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026

After half an hour, Ireland struck again as Ulster flanker Nick Timoney shrugged off a tackle and scurried through for the second try.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025

Under the impatient eye of the Warlord, Cluny’s horde gulped down a hasty meal and scurried about picking up weapons.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

It sends a few scurrying for help, meanwhile, and leaves others vulnerable because they don’t know there’s anything they can do to prevent this from happening.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Even index-fund providers are scurrying to change their rules so they can stuff hot IPOs into indexes as fast as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

An over-excited group of fans celebrated the two saves by breaking a pane of glass behind the Kings bench, sending the coaches scurrying and pausing the game for several minutes as workmen repaired the damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Flames and smoke erupted from a luxury hotel on Dubai's Palm, the landmark, palm tree-shaped development of land reclaimed from the sea, after a loud bang sent passers-by scurrying for cover.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Small mammals were scurrying away from the two of them, and a few birds were up chasing after flashing fireflies.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young