scooch
Example Sentences
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With the Swoop, an able patient can scooch into the magnet as if wriggling under a car’s bumper.
From Science Magazine
“It’s almost as if I scooch the headache forward until the competition is done, and now it’s kicking in bad,” van den Berg said.
From Seattle Times
Others have sunk without a trace — hello, Britain’s 2007 budget airline-themed novelty act Scooch — or saw their musical fame peak with Eurovision success, such as Irish singer Dana, who won as a teenager in 1970, or British pop quartet Buck’s Fizz, who took the prize in 1981.
From Seattle Times
Consequently, elephant seals can only scooch like an inchworm, lifting their bodies high in the air, dragging in their hind flippers under that mass, and, finally, pulling themselves forward with their front limbs.
From Science Magazine
There’s enough space between the trunk and the entrance hole for the rodents to scooch in and out of their artificial lairs, but so little that it’s difficult for predators such as owls to attack.
From National Geographic
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