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
And he scurries off to “the back,” an alleyway behind our row of buildings where the boys chase each other for hours and hours.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
