scutter

Example Sentences

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These venomous pencil-length arthropods scutter beneath the leaves of East Asian and Australian forests, their black, multisegmented bodies and bright red pincers hidden from view.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 12, 2023

I wondered what was up that he should look so scared, and scutter away as though the deuce was after him; I wondered whether he had quarreled with Afy.

From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Things boom overhead like bitterns, or scutter alongside like hares, or arise dripping and hissing from below like otters.

From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard

From the door he watched the man scutter down the long, long corridor out of sight.

From Zero Data by Saphro, Charles

But every boy, even the valiant Johnny Trumbull, was gone in a mad scutter.

From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins