scamper

Example Sentences

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Conflagrations abound—in one, a pair of rabbits anxiously scamper across a road to outrun the flames.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

It was wonderful Russell invention once again that sparked it, the fly-half scampering down the short side, skipping past Guy Pepper and Sam Underhill and managing to kick through in the process of falling over.

From BBC

Lily breaks away from her mother’s grasp and scampers down the hallway.

From Literature

Every single plan I’d made went scampering over to the fireplace, shot up the chimney, and disappeared into the sky.

From Literature