scurry
IPA: skˈɝi
noun
- A dash.
- A surname from Irish.
- A town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
verb
- To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
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Examples of "scurry" in Sentences
- If I approached them, they would scurry into the woods, where they were impossible to find.
- But a scurry of moccasins and loud cries, rounded off with a pistol-shot, interrupted the discussion.
- ` The Thiefmaker tried to let a vaguely sincere expression scurry onto his face, where it froze in evident discomfort. '
- Friday: The sun remains front and center in the morning, but by afternoon, clouds start to scurry in on brisk west winds.
- Morning smiles; the sun stares down with its big white eye and I scurry home in search for a dark crevice to press my body into.
- I've been an AR member for a while, but just recently started blogging and commenting on other's posts ... and it can be "scurry".
- I had just returned from a "scurry" among the Comanches of Western Texas, and the idea of "settling down" was as far from my mind as ever.
- Randy, don’t you know that citing the text of the actual LAW, The Intelligence Identity Protection Act of 1982, makes the giddy leftist Bush haters scurry from the light like cockroaches?
- It was impossible even for the enemy press and the various spokesmen and apologists of the racist regime to ignore the united actions of the African and Coloured youth in Cape Town whose mighty step down the streets of that city caused the racist white minority [to] scurry from the scene like frightened rats into their holes. 43
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