scampering

Example Sentences

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From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

The Galicians capitalised on Barcelona's high defensive line, sending Sergio Carreira scampering in behind and he held his nerve to beat Wojciech Szczesny.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

A final try came in the last breath, Ringrose scampering over to bring up the half-century.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

The Ravenclaws were all backing away, and some of the most frightened began scampering back up the staircase to their beds.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling