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
Arctic foxes skitter with the herky-jerky motion of silent movies.
From New York Times • May 19, 2022
Inside, gold and green lights skitter over the ground like tiny fairies.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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