skitter

Example Sentences

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Robots skitter and whir around the 40-foot tall columns, which are part of a multi-step process that will ultimately convert the CO2 to concrete, rendering the planet-warming compound into nothing more harmful than a stone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

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

Arctic foxes skitter with the herky-jerky motion of silent movies.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

He didn’t feel his cell phone shoot out of his shirt pocket, didn’t hear it smash on the concrete and skitter in pieces into the gutter.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers