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

“Shielded by her security, Britney scurries in like a frightened deer,” Weiss writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

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

Then she scurries off to join her friends.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper