scurry
Example Sentences
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Or the opportunity to introduce him to some innocent bystander so they can scurry away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Once one side has been effectively tagged with responsibility, they’ll scurry for a way out.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025
The home side were the happier to scurry to the dressing room.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025
They also tended to stay closer to their hiding places and were more likely to scurry away when approached.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
Like the Red Queen’s bewildered servants in Alice in Wonderland, the genes scurry about to enact the instructions—build a thorax, make a wing—but in the wrong places or at the wrong times.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing scurry
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