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Sentence Examples Nebraska is a classic West Coast team with a lot of jumps and scramble shifts before the ball is snapped. The guide had to scramble up the side of the thing like a monkey and talk her into moving on one white-knuckled rung at a time. Fighter jets scramble too late to intercept a private plane flying very close to the White House. If the plane is acting suspiciously, fighter jets could scramble to intercept. The aircraft are designed to scramble and intercept incoming enemy jets before they can pose a threat to the carriers. The objects were also picked up by radar, prompting jet fighters to scramble to intercept. Vehicles behind it honk, two and three-wheelers manoeuvre all around it and amid the confusion, people are trying to scramble into it. Ultimately, unless his fever was reduced with intravenous liquids, it would scramble his brain like eggs in a frying pan. Usually, the only solution is soaking and scrubbing, which is why I scramble eggs only in non-stick pans. With the cadaver onboard, the train gets ready to leave and we scramble for our precious third-class seats. For example, try storing uncracked eggs with truffles for a few days, then scramble the eggs. So all of our staff, with the exception of kidnap, are on a 45 minute notice to scramble. He can scramble to avoid pressure and pick up yardage on the run, but he doesn't have a pro arm and is accurate in streaks. He can scramble enough for his receivers to get open, and he can throw a tight pass in traffic. There are four new starters on an inexperienced line, so the team needs a quarterback who can scramble and react to the blitz. The next hour was a constant scramble through tangled trees, around in circles, and hiding behind bushes. We scramble between fishing rods, cameras and delicious crab claws, reluctant to sacrifice any of the three. This delivers a scramble over boulders and down the backside of a fairly impressive granite dome. The Askival Pinnacle can be climbed on its west side by a difficult scramble but can be avoided by a traverse on the east side of the ridge. That first ascent was a good scramble, with a little light rock climbing and much vertigo. Show More Sentences Fine views gradually emerge of falls across the steep canyon, though don't try the hazardous scramble down to them. Expect the scramble for cement, for lumber, for raw materials in the booming southeast to continue. As even public universities become more privatized, the scramble for external funding wedges the two castes further apart. In the scramble to balance the books, the already threadbare provision for non-critical cases could be stripped away. From there it is a straightforward, if steep, scramble on a scree-covered footpath all the way to the summit. You can walk much of the 2-mile-long crack, formed thousands of years ago, but at times it's more of a scramble and a squeeze. He tried as best as he could to ignore her glance as he swallowed and polished off his scramble eggs in record time. This is passed by a delicate traverse on the left to a scramble down and final chimney, or else is laddered also to the left. It involved a scramble over a scree pile, then a bit of free-climbing up a fissure in the granite. A long, lingering snow patch gave a superb standing glissade back down to the col before the last scramble up to An Caisteal, the castle. The walk up the river bed was more of a scramble, as it had rained overnight and the large, algae covered boulders were treacherous and slippery. After a short scramble through impressive rock architecture, turn right over a slab to gain the summit of north peak, an airy viewpoint. On some pieces the letters are outlined, resulting in a jumbled scramble of dirty lines and tainted colour. Back in Dili the next day the confusion created by the scramble of so many players in the campaign is on show for all to see and hear. The lesser lights realistically are hoping to lift support for their party, bearing in mind the post-election scramble to form a government. They were unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even war. There is a mad scramble with people hopping in and out every time a bus stops. Although talk suggests the recruitment of several of them was a bit of a last-minute scramble, it looks well crafted. To be fair, I learned afterwards that the original caterers hadn't shown up so in a scramble the 'za was ordered. As with test publishers, the scramble to boost revenues sometimes leads test-prep companies to violate ethical standards. Show More Sentences Both sides embarked on an escalating public relations battle and a frantic scramble for the moral high ground. The mad scramble for tickets is continuing in both counties with just over 26,000 allocated in Cork and Kilkenny. More tired and thirsty than they had ever been, Kada and Sead finally reached the front of the line, ready to scramble aboard a bus. The Wigan game last year showed the demand for top class RL and the scramble for tickets was amusing to watch. Craving the arancini at Galleria Umberto, she drove in the other day, hoping to win the scramble for parking before the pizzeria sold out. The tragedy is that as this scramble continues, Kenya is going through the worst economic slump in living memory. This scramble for excellence has confirmed the benefits of cooler sites and matching locality to grape varieties. This year the scramble in Claremorris will be on the first Saturday in July and John has already made preliminary arrangements for the event. The scramble is on to get projects onto lists for a coming logrolling of epic proportions. Passengers scramble from cabins with an arsenal of cameras, long lenses, monopods and binoculars. The war was a scramble for the control of the second largest oil reserves in the world and a move to establish its imperial hegemony. Preston took the lead against the run of play when Nicola Rawlinson forced the ball home after a goal mouth scramble. The entrepreneurial scramble to discover IP so as to exploit it has led to a rush on all manner of intellectual material. Politicians of both parties are all on the low road rushing around in a mad scramble for corrupt corporate cash to finance their campaigns. A rise in the number of expensive private fitness centres in Scotland has led to an unprecedented scramble for customers. Behind the move is a scramble to cut costs and boost profits at the expense of workers everywhere. A scramble to the top of the mound gave a good view of merry little red-sailed dinghiess tacking this way and that. At one point water began flowing from the back of a firetruck and firefighters were seen making a mad scramble to turn off the supply. The key is to offer candidates good reason to turn away from the scramble for corporate and private dollars. Things, though, go awry with the food poisoning, and the remaining nuns scramble to bury their dead. Show More Sentences My eyes and throat begin to burn as I scramble beneath my cot, feeling for my gas mask with shaking hands. Two minutes later they scored again, Harris impudently back-heeling the ball home following a goalmouth scramble. Numerous human rights violations have been committed in the scramble for these riches. The scramble for rail tickets began today, as eager passengers tried to secure scarce Christmas seats. For a lot of faculty members, in short, the end of a term is no vacation, but a mad scramble for survival. As the barrage of musket balls continued to cascade down, the sailors hurried to tie the ropes, and scramble up after the two containers. Jameson scramble up the rock face and moved to a position where he could see the path. After falling awkwardly injuring her leg, she was unable to get to her feet and scramble back up the embankment to the path above. Again, if demand for rented accommodation slackens further, investors might high-tail it out of the market, pushing prices down in the scramble. Doctors, social workers and people with HIV describe a desperate scramble to gain access to lifesaving medications. There were no flat landings and we all had to scramble up the steep bank pulling on ferns and trees. The children had been tossed around underwater but managed to get to their feet and scramble to higher ground. Now its dash to grab market share has turned into a scramble to sack workers. Labonte wasn't hurt in the ensuing blaze but with the fuel fire raging, he had to scramble to get free. Meanwhile, those few who had managed to scramble ashore were sheltering below a ruined Turkish fort. He raced clear of the defence to scramble the ball past keeper Mark Cairns. Bath then captured 5-22 and must have been distraught when Bolton were able to scramble a two-wicket win off the final delivery. Udall then had to scramble the corner away under pressure from Brian Pennington. The software sector lends itself to mergers and takeovers as firms scramble to keep pace with market changes and shifting demand. The media bombard the public with calls for more government spending and eager politicians scramble to help in the spend-up. Show More Sentences Their manic scramble was a source of considerable mirth to those of us cheering them on. This is a new benchmark for LCD production that competitors will have to scramble to emulate. Instead, in the Kabila interludes, Congo remains the site of a second Scramble for Africa. The ball shot through my legs and we managed to scramble two byes. Colleges churn out graduates and confer advanced degrees, but the scramble for jobs continues. Simba advanced on her and she began to scramble towards the door. I watched the crab scramble for shelter as everything he knows turned on its side. In the meantime, the scramble is on and, in Republican presidential politics, anything can happen. Perhaps worst of all, this scramble for spoils raises the value of gains even as it lowers the bar for action. In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs and cook in a pan to scramble, remove from heat and sprinkle with cheese. Then it's onwards and upwards to the treetop scramble, with its rope ladders, wooden bridges and hidden routes to the little dragons' amazing secret tree-top lair. And that could be self-fulfilling, as investors start Monday to scramble to guard against that possibility. Very rarely, though, that fastidious and precise pulse deteriorates into a disorganized scramble. Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned. Leopold's depravations were so grotesque and occurred on such a scale that even the other colonial powers had to take pause in their scramble for African loot. Why is it that when the first peek of sun appears, people scramble wildly to de-robe themselves and bake their white flesh to a nice shade of ruby? The dance started at seven so there was a mad scramble to get ready. There's still a mad scramble the night before, but it's not so bad. No runs were scored off the next two balls to heighten the tension before Price pulled the fifth ball to mid-wicket and managed to scramble two runs. Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch. Show More Sentences You can also scramble over rocks, thanks to the shoe's rubber lug sole. She broke down in tears as she relived her ordeal and told how she desperately tried to scramble up the steep banking and how she tried to fight off her attacker. Panicking, I tried to scramble up and move away, but was too late. It is left now to the white collar worker to scramble for a position. This leads to the question of why the air force failed to scramble its fighter jets as soon as it received news that four planes had been hijacked. German fighter planes scramble to intercept him but he lands safely. True, fighters can scramble to a hot spot earlier than a cruiser, but what's the point in doing so when they get shot down by enemy cruisers in two seconds? Push everything to one side, and gently scramble the eggs in the same pan. She begins to scramble some eggs, when Steve comes up from the basement. It is a scramble, but it's not difficult and, if the crest is too airy for you, it's easy enough to trace a less exposed route on the east side of the ridge. Together, they have scaled the stony scramble of Stirrup Crag at Yewbarrow, hit the heights of Helvellyn twice and negotiated the precarious pathway of Striding Edge. A rough scramble reaches the highest rock, the mountain's summit. The first is the scramble through the lakeshore rocks in the fog, where shadowy figures pop up and disappear before it can be determined who they are. At the Hermitage they had a glorious scramble up the Mueller Glacier to Mount Ollivier on the Sealy Range before they cycled on to Wanaka, Cromwell and Dunedin. I had to drop all four of them off, and it was a real scramble to get their shoes together and to get their homework material together, and to drop them off like that. Yorkshire schools are resorting to poaching teachers from each other as a mad scramble to beat the shortages and fill vacancies in time for September begins. Pro-democracy politicians have put the best face they can on a confusing scramble to realign their election strategy in advance of the September Legco election. You just know someone is now working on a device to block the scrambler, while some visionary is starting on a device to scramble the blocker that blocks the scrambler. The frigate, HMAS Warramunga, had to scramble over the holiday break to head deep into the Southern Ocean to apprehend an alleged toothfish poaching trawler. I got run out by a direct hit and Kabir managed to slip, fall over his bat only to try to scramble in on all fours and be just short of the line when the bails came off! Show More Sentences When Carter lost reelection in 1980, Rubenstein had to scramble. It can be combined with a scramble on Eagle Crag, or this part can be bypassed by taking the path to Nethermost Cove before joining the ridge. He reported on the last evacuation flight out of Da Nang and the scramble to get aboard as the city fell to North Vietnamese troops. The scramble continued into the 1890s, and caused Britain to reconsider its decision in 1885 to withdraw from Sudan. It was well understood that a collapse of that country would set off a scramble for its territory and possibly plunge Britain into war. There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck. On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own. Immediately after the earthquake, there was a scramble to secure such supplies and many of the tents ordered were not winterised. All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic. Australian firefighters continue to scramble and contain the worst bushfires in the country in 30 years. Most of Europe scramble for imperial colonies in Africa and Asia in the Age of Empire. That proved a brief let-off for Northampton with Spencer forcing in what proved the winning goal from the ensuing scramble. The fire service had to scramble eight vehicles with 25 fire fighters to tackle 12 fires set by AEL fans. Place over the bain-marie and whisk gently so the egg gradually cooks but doesn't scramble. The unit can scramble in two minutes and can reach most areas of the force within 15 minutes. Rovers failed to clear their lines amida scramble in the box with a Martin Harty effort rebounding before Nelson stepped up to score the winner. But the 70s setting, paired with the cheapish visual effects, helps the thing scramble along like a fleshed-out episode of Scooby Doo. These increasing tensions led to a mutual scramble for ordnance and pushed the colonies toward open war. Fifty days later, more or less, the little turtlings hatch, dig their way up through the sand, and make a mad scramble to the sea. Pour in the beaten eggs and stir-fry for a few seconds until they begin to scramble. Show More Sentences If there was no scramble for Africa, would we have continued to be as weak as our colonisers thought we were? The New Imperialism period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which included the scramble for Africa and the Opium Wars, marked the zenith of European colonization. Slumped up against our old radiogram, he giggled maniacally in between bellowing out Edelweiss, from the Sound of Music, and trying unsuccessfully to scramble to his feet. Casey McEvoy and John Crews from Jabiru were barramundi fishing on a tributary of Tommycut Creek, when the accident happened on Wednesday and they managed to scramble ashore. An attempt to scramble over the centre-stand gates only saw a new shirt and trousers bought for the occasion covered in the tar-like antitheft paint smeared across them. Following the Scramble for Africa, an early but secondary focus for most colonial regimes was the suppression of slavery and the slave trade. The crew was powerless to correct the sudden imbalance, and could only scramble for the safety of the upper deck as the ship began to sink rapidly. A resurgence came in the late 19th century with the Scramble for Africa and major additions in Asia and the Middle East. A city break to Istanbul offers the chance to see wisterias scramble across stone buildings and the heart-shaped leaves of the Judas tree dance among the crowded squares. While parents in the street are drawn to the serious stuff, the kids scramble to the LAPD command post with its flashing rooftop lights, siren bleats and radio chatter. The Scramble for Africa prevented the countries from coming to terms, however. The Berlin Conference sought to end the European powers' Scramble for Africa, by agreeing on political division and spheres of influence. He often felt pressure from the blitz, but did scramble for yards. In the late 19th century, many European powers were involved in the Scramble for Africa. During the period of the Scramble for Africa, almost every country in the larger region to varying degrees became part of a European colonial empire. In 1881 the British government signed a convention recognizing Swazi independence despite the Scramble for Africa that was taking place at the time. Examples from Classical Literature There was a scramble for the buckets, but no one offered to man the windlass and hoist them up the air shaft. If anyone did scramble up into a tree, thinking there to be safe, he rent up his perinee, and impaled him in at the fundament. Silver, even, would be treated with contempt, and there would be a scramble for gold. A scramble for the flowers, then out at the gate and on to the next house, and so da capo. The remainder of the ceremony was lost amid the hurry and scramble of the departure. Without answering, the other Sister at once plunged into the midst of the scramble. Start the tup in his own rough region, and we will be bound to say he will give the hounds and their followers a scramble. She now resolved to clutch at the first branch within reach, hoping in that way to scramble to safety with trit. There was a scramble to the shrouds, and among the first to reach them was McGovern. I saw Daniel the Mystic scramble to his feet and skitter about. He came erect in a quick scramble, jacking in a fresh round as he did so. Singularly, the circle parted right and left in a jostle and a scramble. Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms. There was a mad scramble as the looters raced for their ship. Just then the shadowy object of alarm put itself in motion, and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road. There was a scramble on the instant for muskets, bags, and belongings. A scramble of things bought at La Grange, without reference to size or style. Somebody said you just had a scramble with old Dmitri himself. There was what appeared to be a scramble and a rush rather than any regulated movement. Then it did seem as if Ben really would scramble down on her side of the wall, he was so outraged. Show More Sentences The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed suit. I would as soon scramble for hot pennies in the snow, like the street boys, as scramble to see who can answer most questions. I saw a young man, a shop assistant in Woking I believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. Scramble the eggs, and dish up on a platter on top of four slices of fried egg plant. It was a surprised anthropoid that attempted to scramble to its feet. To get into them, you might hike, scramble, rappel, and even swim. This year's Santa Scramble, on Saturday, December 6, will take place in the muddiest assault course in the UK, Clyne Farm in Swansea. The male in control of a digging spot at the time when a virgin female does scramble out of her emergence tunnel is the male that is likely to copulate with that female. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of scramble? Words that rhyme with scramble What is the past tense of scramble? What is the plural of scramble? What is the adverb for scramble? What is the adjective for scramble? What is the noun for scramble? Translations for scramble Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words SCRAM scram scraggy scraggly scragged scrag scrambled scramble for africa scrambler scramblers scrambles scrambling 8-letter Words Starting With s sc scr scra scram scramb scrambl