scampering

Example Sentences

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The city was quiet, but scampering down Esk Street in the torrential rain of early evening a racket could be heard in the distance.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

The Galicians capitalised on Barcelona's high defensive line, sending Sergio Carreira scampering in behind and he held his nerve to beat Wojciech Szczesny.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

The children started playing, scampering up piles of debris.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025

Their squawking carried through Deadwood, across the busy road, and into the forest beyond, causing scampering critters and lumbering mammals to rise to their hind legs.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman