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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

They also tended to stay closer to their hiding places and were more likely to scurry away when approached.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Some jolted forwards while others tried to scurry past the throngs of cameras and media equipment to grab one of the lucky yellow badges - their key to enter the court.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024

Squirrels scurry across the pentagonal deck, a space reserved for guests, holidays, and serious Choi family conversations.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

There are no fresh ideas in the French creepy-crawler “Infested,” yet this first feature from Sébastien Vanicek scurries forward with such pep and purpose that its shortcomings are easily forgivable.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

Etienne crouches on his popping knees beside Madame, then scurries to the telephone and speaks a few words.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Workers in orange vests and hard hats scurried around the Catalina 7’s deck during the transfer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

He scurried around the Utilita Bowl to find a charger and finished the call with the wire plugged into his car.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

Many wildcatters dug dry wells, or “dusters,” and scurried away in despair.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

When the possessive and paranoid Frank Ford runs into Margaret as she’s scurrying to meet his wife, Alice, he pointedly remarks, “I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Index providers—the firms that compile market averages like the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, the Russell 1000 and so on—have been scurrying to accommodate these titanic deals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Sinner raced into a 4-1 lead in the first set as he sent Shelton, who is a year younger at 23, scurrying to all corners of the court.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Gregor caught a glimpse of a couple of shadowy shapes scurrying along the wall and grimaced.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins