skitter
Example Sentences
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He should have used the nearby crosswalk, but there aren’t enough of those on the boulevard, so pedestrians routinely skitter and scoot across the street like they’re in a game of Frogger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
On a short summer night, listen and you might hear a war whoop skitter out of the darkness along the riverbanks, followed by the scattering yips of coyotes on Mount Sentinel.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
A little fuel and some high-frequency sparking makes the robot skitter across the ground.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
That helped jar the puck loose to skitter over to Kotkaniemi for the near-post putaway at 3:58.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2023
And when the waves and the winds smack at them, they spread their wings and skitter around and then they try to come back together again.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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