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How to use scurry in a sentence

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Or when he steps off a train and into a crowd of photographers only to watch them scurry away when Ava Gardner emerges from an adjacent car.
She would scurry into her shop of Chinese delicacies and come out with my daily fortune cookie.
Rats aren't domesticated animals so they have to scurry to find where their food is.
Lacey quickly opened the door wider allowing them scurry in and empty the steaming buckets in the washtub.
He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
Whenever I saw him standing at the bank of elevators, I'd quickly turn and scurry away.
When someone accidentally bumps him on the street, his ranting makes bystanders scurry away.
In Equinox Flower, Hirayama is left alone in an empty room as both his wife and daughter scurry in and out.
The Fembots have junk, and scurry around like men on a mission between songs.
The girls jump up and scurry over to the crustaceans for closer inspection.
The rats scurry around ravenously, and the narrator realizes that they are waiting to devour his warm, dead flesh.
We have come to see the tornado in all of its glory, not the ant-like humans that scurry about in its path.
Newly emerged moths scurry to the nearest vertical surface, such as a wall, until their cuticles harden.
Crucifixes and virgin statues bob and wave humorously at the camera as the children scurry along.
They scurry across the marble floors, perch snoozing on the railings and snuggle into holes low down in the walls, their long tails poking out.
Eastern grey squirrels scurry up the Norway maple shading my bedroom window.
Soldiers scurry about frantically, climbing atop stacked chairs to see over the transport.
He doesn't scurry through his phone bill and make sure he wasn't overcharged.
If your first instinct is to scurry into a corner, give yourself a personal pep talk first.
I pulled a few boxes from the dark attic, using a flashlight, listening to the mice scurry around.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They did not dash and rush and scurry through their lives in those days, as we do in these.
Then out of the scurry and whirl, the old terrier was observed to get on top.
We had to scurry out in a hurry to avoid being penned there.
In the hurry and scurry that ensued, Sandy escaped sadly to the square.
He left the woodchucks to scurry about the pasture as they pleased.
As he rose to go, he saw a small dark object 27 scurry over the snow.
The dancing and the scurry of pattering feet had both ceased.
You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.
Take mine and scurry home quickly lest the King's Foresters try to put a hole through this Lincoln green.
Thus, many men of courage, he considered, would be obliged to desert the colors and scurry like chickens.
A scurry of feet in the sand, and low sniffings, stiffened him to alertness.
The voice shouted again and was answered by a scurry of horses' feet.
A flock of yellow-throated sandgrouse glides above wispy fronds of thatching grass, while hyrax scurry into the cracks of granite kopjes, escaping the now searing midday sun.
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