scattered
Example Sentences
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On one visit, a rat the size of a running shoe scuttered across the clearing.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
Telephones did not work, clerks scuttered about looking for the only copy of the diplomatic list.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The first leaves fell from the poplars and scuttered across the sidewalks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Expecting to be attacked at any moment, they scuttered and floundered through the undergrowth, finding here a doe and there one of their own rabbits and forcing them on.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Blackberry scuttered along the wood toward him and began to nibble at some kind of greenstuff.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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