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Sentence Examples
| As we slipped down a steep incline, shafts of sunlight bounced around us and colourful dragonets and little gobies darted along the sandy bottom. |
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| He had been steering at the rudder when a great many large, dark shapes darted up from out of the deep. |
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| Jacob leaped again, then darted downward from midair, smacking right into Steve's chest and knocking them both down. |
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| Forgetting that she was in only boy shorts and a tank top, Ally darted down the hall. |
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| She darted into the midst of the flock of storks, with her four broodlings close beside her. |
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| The figure darted like a mouse into one of the few buildings that remained standing and rushed up some cracked stairs to a second floor. |
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| He giggled happily and his eyes darted around the room to see if he could not glimpse someone else. |
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| Her tongue darted out faster than humanly possible, catching a drop on the tip. |
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| A guy who looked right out of The Old Man and the Sea darted to greet friends at a back table. |
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| Jady had only moved nearly ten paces before the girl darted out in front of Jady. |
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| Ryan's mind raised several questions, but just as he was about to voice the first, a heavily panting Melanie darted into the room. |
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| He quickly darted in and bit the wolf in the neck and it howled in pain as it struggled but he held it tight and ignored its paws swiping at him. |
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| About a dozen whales have been spotted to date, mostly humpbacks, and five have been darted. |
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| The boys tried to follow their path but they darted behind statues and pedestals. |
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| In even shallower water, the kelp cover thickened and small pollack and codling darted around, snapping at particles in the water. |
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| His eyes darted to the old coffee cup from a few days ago sitting in the cup holder. |
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| I got up and went to pet her but she was having none of it, pulled back, turned, and darted back into the airing cupboard again. |
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| A pair of pewees darted between twigs above the path, calling occasionally, and a hummingbird or two whizzed overhead. |
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| The shape darted behind trees and through the shadows, coming ever closer to the failing glow of the cinders. |
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| Players darted into contention and equally swiftly darted out again, but a precious few stayed with it until the end. |
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| His piggy eyes, deep set and sunken in his fat, pink head, glinted like Mercury marbles and darted left and right in confusion. |
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| His eyes darted nervously back and forth between the protesters and the tense-looking Marines inside the cordon of concertina wire. |
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| Her face crinkled up in disgust, then she darted past him and into the hallway in an effort to get away from him. |
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| The man's eyes darted open as he glanced around the room for a moment, heart pounding and hand throbbing in sympathy with the memory. |
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| I darted down the path within the shadows cast by the trees across my path, dappling me with moonlight with every other thud of my foot. |
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| With bare feet I stepped into the alley and walked slowly, reaching out my hand to the filthy animals that hissed and darted away. |
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| Suddenly, Berry darted away from us, swimming fast towards the ocean floor as we watched, intrigued. |
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| She held a fig out in the palm of her hand, and the animal darted away and disappeared into the thicket. |
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| Below, crabs sidestepped on the rocks and all kinds of fish darted by, making the snorkelling superb. |
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| I glanced up in time to see Madi looking at me, but she darted her eyes away quickly. |
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| We sat looking at each other for a moment, before Andy darted his eyes away and stood up. |
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| I looked to Colleen then darted my eyes to her left, where Lori would have generally stood. |
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| He gave her a meaningful look, then darted his eyes to the back of Lewis's head and back to Lidia's patently beautiful face. |
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| As the three of us trekked over to the luggage area, I constantly darted my eyes around and looked at all the people. |
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| As soon as the door closed behind her, she darted her eyes in every direction. |
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| He pushed me back, threw his fingers through his hair wildly, and darted his eyes around to see if anyone had seen him. |
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| When she turned to him, he darted his eyes upward and glanced at the bathroom. |
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| My gaze drifted past a familiar head of blond hair and I immediately darted my eyes back in his direction. |
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| The lions were darted and tranquillised on Tuesday at the Shamwari reserve and transported to Inkwenkwezi yesterday. |
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| The elephant, which was darted with a tranquilliser by veterinary staff soon afterwards, is now back in its herd. |
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| It's crucial that elephants allow these researchers to get up close so the animals can be darted and fitted with radio collars. |
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| The brightly colored fish that had been nibbling at the tips of her gloved fingers darted away. |
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| The sword darted out as he'd expected, engaging his dagger, and the knife drove forward for his belly, but his left hand struck like a serpent. |
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| But he ducked the blow and darted his head back up colliding with Kung's chin. |
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| The small, ratty man ran down the pavement, his wife at his heels, and darted past a small ice cream parlor. |
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| The forked tongue darted from his lips, and the tip of his tail began the familiar sound of a rattle. |
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| Seconds later, an airplane darted by, flying straight into the cerulean blue horizon. |
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| Lacey turned around and darted for the coffee table and grasped a reel of duct tape, holding it up in her hand. |
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| The man operating the cash register sighed in a world-weary fashion and darted his eyes around to ensure there weren't too many people around. |
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| A fantastically coloured male cuckoo wrasse, all neon blues and gold, darted out in front of me. |
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| They both darted down the hallway, and with that, Stevey and I were left alone together. |
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| When they got to the corner, she darted ahead and scampered up the copper beech. |
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| Tossing the salami onto the ground, the man held back a satisfied snicker as the animal darted towards the meat, scarfing it up quickly. |
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| Heather darted for the ball as it came back to her left side and hit it with a backhand. |
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| Paws thudded on the ground nearby, and a small scrawny wolf darted out of the brush, headed in an erratic fashion to the path. |
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| Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went. |
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| Nick was sent sailing into the grain thresher, smashing against the sides of the tower as Seven quickly darted at him. |
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| Initially 41 female elephants were darted, radio collared and injected with the contraceptive vaccine. |
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| Just as she darted into the shadows, her dark cloak billowing behind her, showing a flash of crimson, a loud ruckus came from the front door. |
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| My eyes darted to the point of the noise and saw a small shiny black object with earphones. |
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| The fact remains that this particular shopwalker uttered a cry of protest and darted in pursuit of the hat and cape. |
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| Then, stealthily, the person darted over to another door and tried the handle. |
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| The instant I let go, it darted into the depths and vanished, as if nothing had happened. |
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| He said the big cat was gone in a matter of seconds, but he was left shaken as the animal darted away through trees and undergrowth. |
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| With the slack in the rope, she darted forward, and pinched the bulge in her teeth, and tugged, eliciting a scream from Spade. |
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| Her eyes darted to him quickly, her gaze showing her undisguised disbelief. |
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| Then she crackled her knuckles and darted out into the Meadow, where she was greeted with an unfamiliar sight. |
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| Her piercing grey eyes darted about the room, still in search for a seat. |
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| She rubbed an arm across her eyes and darted another quick look. |
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| Nile darted into the bathroom and slammed the door shut behind her. |
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| We darted form place to place, seeking what little cover we could find. |
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| Her eyes darted toward his and she caught the glimmer of ill humor. |
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| She saw the tightness in the way the men were biting their lips, the stiff way they held their shoulders, the way their eyes darted from side to side. |
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| The hippos snorted, the rhinos dozed and the giraffes nervously darted about as the hammer fell yesterday at Africa's largest wild animal auction. |
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| The tiny animal darted away nervously, no doubt totally discombobulated by the sight of two bubble-blowing monsters disturbing it's quiet lifestyle. |
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| He shouted as he darted around and blasted several rounds of hot shells into the darkness, but suddenly, Saints took this chance and began firing. |
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| He was able to dodge her long enough to make his way to the edge of the forest and darted into the trees, hiding behind one large enough to shield him from view. |
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| Dogs darted among the crowd with the children, their barks mingling with the yowls of cats in alleys and on rooftops and the coos and flutter of pigeons taking flight. |
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| South African vets and above-board outfitters worry that profiteering reserve managers are allowing animals to be darted more than once a season, for sport. |
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| A pair of water ouzels dipped and darted along the edge of a riffle in front of the car as I watched, then flew across the river when I stepped too close. |
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| Robert Martin whipped in a shot from the right wing and quicksilver forward Fabio Cretaro, who darted with menace, diverted the sliothar past Mayo's net-minder Michael Walsh. |
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| A little boy on a tricycle darted out in front of them from behind a white picket fence but quickly turned and pedaled away when he noticed them standing above him. |
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| Vicky's eyes darted anxiously and there was a spark of fear. |
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| In the evenings, in the afterglow of sunset, when parrots darted across the sky, her face would absorb light and slowly become luminous like the moon. |
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| Stuffing her cell phone into her purse she darted down the stairs and out the door before her mother could ask her why she was going out at nine on a school night. |
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| She spoke quietly, and her eyes darted back toward the road ahead. |
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| While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land. |
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| After the ball squirted out of a ruck on the French side Yachvili darted down the narrow blindside before chipping ahead and winning the race to the ball. |
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| As cameras rolled, Conroy darted out the front door of the home with a jacket over her head and raced to a waiting car. |
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| Hummingbirds and little tubby warblers darted among the trees. |
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| All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover. |
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| Remaining in bloomers and the frilly corset, I darted from the cover. |
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| Our teacher had taken sick leave, and the sub was some mousy post-grad who darted glances amongst us as though we were going to jump on him and gnaw his head off anytime soon. |
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| Models in Veronica Lake hairdos strutted confidently down the runaway in armoured jackets and darted skirts over ribbed cashmere footless stockings and stiletto pumps. |
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| There were early flashes, Figo robbed Iulian Filipesco of the ball in the fifth minute to supply Numo Gomes with a shot that darted past the left post. |
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| While our youngsters, brought up without free school milk, were lolloping about mid-week, the home side darted about like greyhounds and finished like pit bulls. |
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| Throughout the blustering winds parting the tall grass, a figure darted through the brush, and just like that moved as fast as the bolts of lightening above. |
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| In January 7, 2008, five Iranian speedboats darted around three U.S. warships in the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. |
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| Small animals darted away from the sharp eyes of the ever-hungry raven. |
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| Her pale blue eyes were wide and terror-stricken and darted from the barred door to the tiny circular window, but there was no way she could escape her confines. |
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| When Donny refused, Johnny darted for the knife rack in the kitchen. |
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| As the native canoes got within range, Fernandes gave the signal and the hidden Portuguese armed launch darted out from behind the ship. |
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| Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. |
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| Miss Squirrel darted along the snow-covered trail toward town, clutching an armload of packages. |
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| Sophomore Ben Reiffarth took the squib kick and darted 71 yards for the touchdown. |
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| I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo. |
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| In the 52nd minute Ben Fisher darted over the line to score Scotland's first try. |
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| But while Ferguson was still screaming blue murder over an unpunished cynical trip by Luiz on the England man, Zhirkov induced a Smalling twitch as he darted forward. |
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| Her hand darted in distraction to fumble eightsies, the jacks scattering. |
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| The bratty pop star, 21, was trying to make a quick undercover getaway as he darted from the TFI Friday studios, where he was promoting new single Sorry. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Miss Gish and her escort darted into the house, the camera man reeling busily. |
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| Like his companion, this insect rose and encircled the stump several times, ere it darted away toward its hive, in an air-line. |
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| They had stopped their forward rush and darted into the shelter of the pergola. |
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| Whitefoot the wood mouse darted into a knothole in the log on which he had been sitting. |
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| Here and there a chuckwalla darted across the trail or a rock squirrel sat on his haunches and scolded as we passed. |
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| Gwinnett's eyes darted from side to side, like the eyes of a trapped animal. |
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| The gyrocopter was sluggish, dipped alarmingly when it should have darted, arrow-like, to its mark. |
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| We were going to seize him, but he broke away and darted like a hare into the shrubs. |
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| The old gentleman jumped up, ferula in hand, and darted across the school, and saw himself upon the fatal slate. |
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| A fortune, rapid and secure, darted before du Tillet's eyes like a flash of lightning in a saturnalian night. |
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| He bent his head to the sleeting blast and darted down the middle of the street to Second Avenue. |
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| He noted the pallor of her face, and darted me a quick, suspicion-laden glance. |
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| With this he placed himself below smaragdine's window, received her on his shoulders, and darted off with her like lightning. |
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| The scouter darted for shore with Farrell lying across Gibson's knees in the cockpit, his head hanging half overside. |
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| Roger shut off the engine and followed by the others, he darted to the condenser. |
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| A flash darted out from the ship, hitting the spiralled figure operating his mystifying weapon. |
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| They were still high up, but all of a sudden they darted down together and alit on a tall tree that stood nearly alone. |
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| Then I darted back to Cairo, in a taxi driven by a Nubian youth, so black that he was almost blue, like a whortleberry. |
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| She darted, bronze, to the backmost corner, flattening her face against the pane in a halo of hurried breath. |
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| Chuckling, Bud darted in pursuit, whacked the porpoise that had nudged him, and jetted off again. |
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| A few squirrels darted from the earth and disappeared as mysteriously before the jingly mules. |
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| At the sight of kraken she uttered a cry of alarm and darted forward to escape from him. |
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| An idea came to him as if into his brain also a sunray had darted, making a sudden light there. |
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| Still trying to hold the kyack of food that meant life to Ben, she turned and darted into the shadows. |
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| Me she had not seen, nor did she till I darted out of my ambush, and leapt after Rupert into the moat. |
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| From out the clump of mountain ivy that skirted the hill above the whipsawed cabin there had darted a shadow. |
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| A noise like thunder filled the air, a black shadow fell over her, and a thunderbird darted down upon her. |
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| Win darted a cornerwise glance at Tobias to see if he were suspiciously watching her. |
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| With an oath, bentwood darted forward and flung himself upon Berrington's shoulders. |
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| Without waiting to consider vitas opinion, Nora sprang from her hiding place and darted up the path into the cottage. |
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| The manhunter straightened, threw Jeff to the floor, darted from the room and out into the hall. |
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| Carlos came and licked his master's face, then darted off after a red-legged partridge. |
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| Silently the two men darted up the ramp to the pent-apartment, dashed into the master bedroom. |
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| The little squirrel had squeaked his gladness, and, tail erect, had darted into the grass. |
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| From his compass his eyes darted to his turn-and-bank indicator, then to his air speed indicator. |
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| With these words he darted toward the tree, and twinkle and Chubbins followed. |
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| The startled animal uttered a 'miaul' of alarm and darted back again, making a horrible rustling. |
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| Kitty was with them, and she darted towards me, but Mrs. Van Dam was before her. |
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| The city rocket ships that crossed the sky on pillars of scarlet flame darted helplessly, frightenedly for shelter. |
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| Before Mitzi knew what had happened her brother had darted out of the house. |
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| Then a moonbeam darted in, and Mr Addison stood on the other side of the fire. |
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| A Camberwell beauty darted through the open door and made its way, in erratic plunges, great wings waving, down the sunny aisle. |
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| The enormous flatboat, that Suzanne had likened to a giant tortoise, darted now like an arrow, dragged by the current. |
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| Paul darted, as quickly as his unwieldly bulk would allow, into the middle of the street. |
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| Through the water the Nevian commander darted along, steering his course accurately by means of his short, vaned tail. |
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| Off darted the newsboy, to be lost in the crowd on the other side of the street. |
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| A Russian torpedo boat in shelter behind the navarin, now seeing its chance, darted out and launched its projectile. |
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| All over the room ran the mice, and all about darted the frightened girls. |
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| An instant later Chak darted into the tent and fell to the ground. |
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| Biddy darted off to an adjoining room, leaving me alone with my employer. |
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| Then he darted from the room, and betook himself home with all speed. |
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| It might have been darted by some Nor' West Indian long before America was discovered. |
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| The bloater cut the cord that bound Phil Sparks, and darted from the room. |
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| Not long afterward we answered a shoreward hail, and two Whitehall boats, each pulled by three pairs of oars, darted up to us. |
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| Through the entrance of the cavern they darted and disappeared. |
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| Temple darted into the booth, the conveyor, and slammed it shut. |
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| The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it. |
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| Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child. |
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| They darted from Garson to the other three men, and back again in rebuke. |
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| The stranger, whoever he was, had darted back in the undergrowth. |
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| He stepped toward the door, but Isabel darted in front of him. |
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| A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him. |
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| One of the octopi writhed past him and darted onto the depth charge. |
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| At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble. |
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| Wamibo darted out a dishevelled head, and looked at him wildly. |
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| Mr. Darco darted and shook her as if she had been a doormat. |
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| Then, mounted on a pale flash of lightning, he darted back to Semele. |
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| He darted a look into the binnacle and took a hurried compass bearing of the sounds Jerry was making. |
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| It was joyful to hear the merry whistle of blackbirds as they darted from one clump of greenery to the other. |
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| He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron. |
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| As Turkey had foretold, she darted aside, and I retreated behind my stone. |
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| A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. |
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| At threshing time, she darted lightly all over the separator, Martin's watchful eye constantly upon her, and his protective hand near her. |
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| A tall, broad man stepped forward and took me, and James darted back into the stable. |
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| The sand began to work, and presently a small black bug appeared for a second and then darted under again in a fright. |
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| The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing frenchwoman who carped the floor with her pink satin train. |
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| He darted to the chair where Gertie had sat and guiltily kissed its arm. |
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| Only the birds that darted here and there from hedges were awake, and singing their matins. |
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| Simeon was just behind me and he darted forward with outstretched hand. |
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| As he neared highland, three of them darted directly into his path. |
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| He darted a preparatory glance at Athos and Aramis, who slyly pushed their chairs a little back so as to leave themselves more space for action. |
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| A dog snatched at a spiny lower leg and crunched and darted away. |
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| Crazy Mary darted out from the group of women at the church door, and ran down the road after Lena, shouting horrible threats. |
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| The Frenchman darted a quick and angry look at his inquisitor. |
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| Jamila darted down like a flash of lightning, and saw that it was so. |
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| Then suddenly, as if obeying an uncontrollable impulse, he crushed it like a flower again and again against his burning lips, and darted away. |
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| Effie lunged for it frantically, switched it off, darted back. |
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| But the lurker refused to be caught and darted away into the shadows. |
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| So said he, and forbore not glance or toy Of amorous intent, well understood Of EVE, whose Eye darted contagious Fire. |
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| The other marl perceived me, darted frantically toward me, then slowed. |
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| In a trice he broke beyond the circle and darted to the control-panel. |
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| I darted off on my unenviable quest, meeting the doctor on the stairs. |
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| Du Bousquier cast upon the chevalier the most venomous look that toad ever darted on its prey. |
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| We went forward and examined the place and saw the long tracks which her feet had made in the dirt when they darted over the verge. |
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| His soul simmering with omelette, he darted towards the door. |
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| He darted through the greenness and into the close-grown corner and was out of sight. |
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| The thought that the beggar had started to prance darted through his mind. |
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| For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one be ineffectually darted without recovery. |
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| Obtaining the permission he desired, he darted off with breathless eagerness, and, still carrying the birdcage in his hand, made straight towards the spot. |
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| Three men darted forward and dispatched her with their bayonets. |
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| Swiftly something flew across the wall and darted through the trees to a close grown corner, a little flare of red-breasted bird with something hanging from its beak. |
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| The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg. |
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| Brilliantly plumaged birds with raucous voices darted from tree to tree. |
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| But at the doorless entrance to the lazarette aft, he threw caution to the winds and darted in in pursuit of the new scent that came to his nostrils. |
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| He tried to catch it, but the mouse ran to and fro in zigzags without leaving the bed, slipped between his fingers, ran over his hand and suddenly darted under the pillow. |
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| Then they darted around her bow and began the row down her port side, and we tacked about, crossed her bow, and went plunging down the wind hot after them. |
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| Teresa uttered a cry of joy, and, without inquiring whence this attire came, or even thanking Luigi, darted into the grotto, transformed into a dressing-room. |
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| Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs. |
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| The unknown here again darted at Cropole one of his withering glances. |
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| Manuel nudged Dan, who darted to the after-tackle, and, leaning far overside, slipped the hook into the stern-rope as Manuel made her fast forward. |
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| Christie darted back to the cabin, and softly reentered her room. |
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| D'Artagnan, keeping at some distance from his friends, darted a scrutinizing glance into every carriage that appeared, but saw no face with which he was acquainted. |
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| He was shouting to his men, and as she heard them reply Meriem darted from the hut and ran toward the edge of the boma furthest from Malbihn's tent. |
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