scurry

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

Like the Red Queen’s bewildered servants in Alice in Wonderland, the genes scurry about to enact the instructions—build a thorax, make a wing—but in the wrong places or at the wrong times.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee