skittered

If her heart had its way, it would have skittered out of her chest and started vacation without her.

Bezos, eager to score prominent coverage of his fledgling company, “skittered around … like a frenetic mongoose,” Swisher recalled in her new book, published Tuesday under the title “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.”

Impatient, Wenders yelled “Go away!” and the crew skittered to hide behind a row of bicycles.

As he did so, he deliberately knocked the box out of Zheng’s hands and it skittered to the ground.

For decades, they have walked along the prison’s high walls, sunbathed on the metal roof and skittered between cells crowded with 10 men each.