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

At sunrise the river would shoulder her carefully into her place, and listen to the rush and scutter of the pack fleeing up the gang-plank, and the tramp of the Governor's Arab behind them.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard

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

The rats, perhaps, that scutter in the wainscot.

From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude

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.