scurry
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Life moves pretty fast when your heart beats 1,200 times a minute, and the plot of “The Shrew Detective” moves briskly as Minerva and Tenacity scurry between clues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
How quickly or slowly can the chyrons listing adverse reactions scurry across your screen?
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
Then Johnny saw running down Cambridge road through the bushes on Charlestown Common a scurry of red ants.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
“It’s so intimidating to walk through here,” says an arena staffer as she scurries under the sight line of a video camera on a tall tripod.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
Instead, she’s poised and sure-footed, musing about the possibility of romance as Getz’s saxophone scurries and spirals around her.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
In one video, a rat scurries across the cluttered room.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
My aim’s not that great, so I carry it over to the trash can, but before I get there, the biggest rat I’ve ever seen scurries across my path.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
With Game 3 of the World Series underway at Dodger Stadium last October, a few folks scurried across a pedestrian bridge with LED lights and blue glow sticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Other local residents scurried to take cover in basements.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Jacob Bethell made an entertaining 55 and Brook a well-placed 53 for England, but Nepal's batting was on a par as they swept and scurried.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
Trilobites scurried across the seafloor among dense clusters of shelled mollusks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
He trailed off, then scurried up the stairs two at a time.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
It sends a few scurrying for help, meanwhile, and leaves others vulnerable because they don’t know there’s anything they can do to prevent this from happening.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even index-fund providers are scurrying to change their rules so they can stuff hot IPOs into indexes as fast as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
They call it “speed running,” slang for trying to beat a video game as quickly as possible, scurrying around hazards and taking shortcuts to skip through levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Flames and smoke erupted from a luxury hotel on Dubai's Palm, the landmark, palm tree-shaped development of land reclaimed from the sea, after a loud bang sent passers-by scurrying for cover.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Today I catch sight of rats scurrying away from the water of his mop, disappearing into dark corners of the deck.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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