(v. t.) To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.
(n.) A scampering; a hasty flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Again Beasley scampers forwards down the left, but Torres does well to tackle at full stretch.
(2) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
(3) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(4) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
(5) 8.50pm BST 18 min: After solid possession play by Real, Bale scampers past three defenders and into the box.
(6) 83 min: Messi scampers in from the right and drills a low shot towards the near post, but Cech plunges down and gets the lightest of fingertips on the ball to push it on the post!
(7) 3.14pm BST 12 min: Now it's West Ham's turn to threaten, as Downing scampers behind the City defence on the right.
(8) As it scampered towards its subsequent escape, fans substituted 'cat' for 'attack' as they chanted: "A cat, a cat; a cat, a cat, a cat!"
(9) But we go to deuce and Dimitrov will be pleased to see how much he's making Murray scamper around the baseline.
(10) Bayern’s only real mistake in the first half came in the form of Benatia’s poor positioning and mistimed challenge after Frank Lampard had clipped the ball over the top for Agüero to scamper clear.
(11) He looks half decent when he gets on the ball, the little scampering lad.
(12) 38 min: Welbeck sashays and scampers down the inside-right channel, making himself space just to the right of the D and dragging a shot across the face of goal and out on the left.
(13) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(14) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
(15) This humble artefact turns characters into cat form, scampering up walls, scratching away enemies and becoming around 60% more adorable – clearly created with internet fandom in mind.
(16) Kicking it seemed the easier option, but he decided to get down on one knee and head straight at Bravo, who had time to recover, scamper across his line and save well.
(17) 5.05pm BST 3 min: St Zuber goes on a freewheeling run up the left wing and loses the ball, prompting a hoofed thump from City in an attempt to find Aguero as he scampers into the box.
(18) A scrawny black dog wanders into the road, sizes up his human visitors and scampers back into the woods.
(19) Gareth Bale defiant over fans’ criticism of Real Madrid’s European exit Read more It was now back to square one, and Real again attacked primarily through Marcelo: he scampered forward and played a good low cross for a Bale chance, then his one-two with Ronaldo produced another Bale opportunity, this time a far-post header.
(20) Kids steamed past on scooters, ran around in fields, scampered through a forest, all red-cheeked and brazenly healthy.
Scramble
Definition:
(v. i.) To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
(v. i.) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
(v. t.) To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.
(v. t.) To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.
(n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.
(n.) The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.
Example Sentences:
(1) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(2) Finally, the data prove that the actin I gene in O. trifallax is scrambled in a pattern that resembles the pattern in O. nova.
(3) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(4) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(5) The influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and several African and Balkan countries has strained local governments, which have scrambled to house the newcomers in old schools, office blocks and army barracks.
(6) Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli.
(7) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
(8) LDLLFL-mediated inhibition was sequence specific because the reverse peptide LFLLDL and scrambled peptides were not inhibitory.
(9) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(10) Young and elderly adults' performance was compared on the Landmark Selection Task, designed to assess perceptual selection, and the Scrambled Route Task, designed to assess temporospatial integration.
(11) Yet, the White House appears to be scrambling to set up infrastructure that can support such a conversation and has placed its trust in a body with a chequered history of independent scrutiny.
(12) Refugees scramble for ways into Europe as Hungary seals borders Read more Habbal was one of at least 16 applicants to be rejected on Tuesday, and he claimed that each person was turned down in a maximum 20 minutes, after a series of perfunctory questions about their country of origin and route to Hungary.
(13) Results from experiments involving alkylation of cysteine residues are compatible with the possibilities that in aFGF all three cysteines exist as free sulfhydryls, or alternatively, that a disulfide bridge is present but cannot be identified due to disulfide scrambling caused by the SH group of the remaining cysteine.
(14) Losing at Old Trafford will obviously mean missing the first of those targets and could also have a knock-on effect on the scramble for the top four.
(15) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(16) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
(17) Following a scramble of phone calls between the chief of the defence staff, General Sir David Richards, and General John Allen, commander of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan , the minister insisted that no major strategic change had been made in policy towards Afghan allies.
(18) One said EU officials were left scrambling to find out if it was “legally and logistically possible”, while another diplomat said it was “naive” to think that such a complex plan could be agreed so quickly.
(19) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(20) The Labour leader’s aides scrambled on to a conference call to work out a plan to deal with the rebellion.