scurries
Example Sentences
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A few minutes' walk from the Citizens Advice office, Shania is sitting at the edge of a park feeding her newborn baby, while her older child, a toddler, scurries nearby.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
But despite this convincing show, Romy is merely faking it, a detail we learn moments later when she scurries off to the privacy of her office.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
After exchanging words with a curiously hostile waiter, the Collector scurries down a shadowy Chandleresque mean street before taking a fatal turn into a nightmarish alley.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
When the pedestrian signal flashes a red hand, the squad bursts into laughter and scurries to the sidewalk.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
She scurries from the bedroom to the living room, taking pictures of our family and the Buddha off the walls and piles them into her arms.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
