skitter

Example Sentences

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Motorized blue spotlights skitter across the floor and climb walls to the ceiling, where they rush past a pair of mirrored disco fixtures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

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

Lizards and roadrunners skitter across the museum floor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Reynie added with a shudder, brushing away a beetle that had tried to skitter under his shirt collar.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart