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
Sekani scurries in and sits behind me, propping his bare feet on my shoulders.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
