scuttle

Example Sentences

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When the news came out, however, Unilever’s stock tanked, eventually scuttling the deal and souring management on bigger ones.

From The Wall Street Journal

He filled a pot-bellied stove from a small coal scuttle, for all the world a kindly German householder entertaining a guest.

From Literature

It was the kind that the clans call the smoke-frost: an icy breath that descends from the High Mountains at the start of winter, blackening berries and sending small creatures scuttling for their burrows.

From Literature

Analysts don’t expect any delay to scuttle the fragile U.S.-China truce or a future meeting, with modest demands from both sides still likely.

From Barron's

But analysts don’t see the Iran conflict at this point scuttling a U.S.-China summit, or the broader detente.

From Barron's