scurry

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

I fix my eyes on a shell-hole; the moment the light dies I scurry over into it, grope farther, spring into the next, duck down, scramble onward.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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 scurries out of the hall to hide in the living room, probably listening to make sure I send him away.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

When the race began at 4, two hours before sunrise, we scurried off into the woods in tight single file.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Thousands had excitedly scurried through the entrance gates before sunrise to claim a spot in the huge 5,000-capacity grandstand on the first tee.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

Nat hugged his thin coat about him and scurried back from an errand.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

Muncy’s 434-foot home run in the second made it 2-0 and his double down the line in the third drove in Smith, who’d reached on a broken-bat single that sent Roberts scurrying in the dugout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

As though it were a regular household chore, people time themselves picking up their pets and children and scurrying into shelters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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

More fiddler crabs emerged from their holes, scurrying crazily and getting closer to where we sat.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson