SCURRY in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for SCURRY, such as:
1. The gophers scurried up and down the ploughed ground.
2. Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry.
3. The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover.
4. As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground.
5. Pork scurried from the room as her voice roughened and Scarlett was left alone with Gerald.
2. Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry.
3. The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover.
4. As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground.
5. Pork scurried from the room as her voice roughened and Scarlett was left alone with Gerald.
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Meanings and Examples of SCURRY
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scurry
n. rushing about hastily in an undignified way
v. to move about or proceed hurriedly
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 He was damned glad it was over--the scurry and the scuffle, the rouge and the rings.
2 The chair gave a sort of scurry, reeled on a few more yards, and came to her end amid a particularly promising patch of bluebells.
3 Thus, many men of courage, he considered, would be obliged to desert the colors and scurry like chickens.
4 Always hurry and scurry, looking for copy and sometimes not finding it: and then, always to have something new in your stuff.
5 approached it a repulsive, yellow, steaming liquid shot out causing some rats to scurry away into the nearby canal.
6 Prissy and Wade scurried for the cellar and crouched in the cobwebbed darkness, Prissy squalling at the top of her voice and Wade sobbing and hiccoughing.
7 Pork scurried from the room as her voice roughened and Scarlett was left alone with Gerald.
8 Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.
9 The gophers scurried up and down the ploughed ground.
10 As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground.
11 Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.
12 And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even slightly.
13 When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.
14 Amid the tears and confusion and kissing and scurrying for smelling salts and brandy, there was only one calm face, one dry pair of eyes.
15 When Jurgis lifted up the mattress he discovered beneath it a layer of scurrying roaches, almost as badly frightened as himself.
Example Sentence:
1 Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry.
2 The attack began, sending residents scurrying for cover.