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How to use scuffling in a sentence

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After a few moments of scuffling noises coming from behind the door, it opened and Sarah appeared wearing a skimpy black negligee.
When I last saw Jose, he was living in a West Side Manhattan housing project, scuffling for diminishing gigs.
When they approached and knocked on the bathroom door, they heard scuffling and the toilet flushing.
But he never stops scuffling, even when bumming a ride on the rails from Chicago to San Francisco.
To complete the afternoon, I heard a scuffling downstream followed by a squeal.
Once, I heard something scuffling inside one of the forbidden rooms, as if a cat or other animal was scratching their paws over the walls.
The scuffling of boots and the softer clip-clop of a woman's heels brought his thoughts from Caroline.
He didn't hear anymore scuffling of feet, clothing moving, no shadows, not even the sound of breathing.
The white of the barren room was a stark contrast to the blackness of the hole, up through which drifted faint scuffling sounds.
And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
I suddenly heard scuffling about down the hall, so I proceeded carefully down to the small chapel down the hall, near the backstairs that led down to the kitchen.
There was a scuffling and two of the employees ran off in the same direction, Angel stood and waited patiently, but felt all of the establishment's eyes upon her.
Televised scenes of soldiers and settlers scuffling are thought to be helpful to the beleaguered Labour leader's party campaign.
I heard a scuffling from the corner of the room, underneath Emily's desk.
Holgorsen will get things rolling offensively before too long, but the Mountaineers are scuffling.
One night we were having a fairly heavy raid and we heard a scuffling at the doorway, and in through the curtain jumped a big rat, when the rat jumped in, we jumped out!
But the Californian pattern started to change in 1994, after a court case brought by parents whose son had been injured in a state hospital while scuffling with other youthful patients.
In 1996, the courts fined people for scuffling with police.
However, three-quarters of the so-called violent youth crime are level one common assaults, pushing and shoving and scuffling in the schoolyard which 15 or 20 years ago would never have come to the attention of police.
It grows in the bones of scuffling, isolated country childhoods.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There seemed to be a sort of scuffling noise in the back passage, as she was coming in at the front door.
There was a good deal of scuffling and stamping, and a noise of persons falling.
Footsteps, a rush of wind, a scuffling, and an oath brought her head about.
The hogs were not in sight, though they could be heard grunting and scuffling.
There was the sound of a low growl as of an uncaged animal, then a scuffling sound followed by a thud.
There was a great deal of clanging and whanging and scuffling, it seemed to the poor, overwrought girl.
Presently she heard a scuffling noise and cries outside, in the passage.
After scuffling and separating, they gazed up at me with silent longing.
As he came up the stairs in the dark, he heard scuffling on the back porch, and then the sound of a vigorous slap.
He was scuffling with the prime minister and the director-general of public education, and he was a royal gift to me and my camp servants.
The reporters stopped their scuffling and followed Stern's gaze.
There was a sound of scuffling, broken by squeaks from Jimmy of the high voice.
Suddenly there was a scuffling, yells were heard and tables were upset.
Just then a burst of angry shouting and scuffling erupted in the corridor.
After a while this ceased, and then came the scuffling and shuffling of men's feet as they carried a heavy weight down the steep and winding stairs.
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