scurry
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Or the opportunity to introduce him to some innocent bystander so they can scurry away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
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
We watched him scurry across the parking lot, glancing around.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
She nods and scurries off to the bedroom to get her hat.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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
Other local residents scurried to take cover in basements.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Trilobites scurried across the seafloor among dense clusters of shelled mollusks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
Tao Tao scurried away and scampered up a tree—the perfect response!
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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
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
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
With Bielle-Biarrey having sent Ireland nervously scurrying back towards their line, Charles Ollivon knocked the ball on and let the men in green off the hook.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 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
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