(v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
(n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(2) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(3) Pavlov included nonassociative controls, forward pairing of the indifferent stimuli before reinforcing the second one with shock, and he avoided the development of inhibition to the compound by using a moving visual stimulus and a sound like that of scurrying mice, which both had persistent orienting reactions.
(4) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
(5) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(6) 3.44pm BST First set: *Djokovic 1-4 Nadal (*denotes server) Djokovic scurries to the net, slicing a backhand volley crosscourt when there was no need - Nadal's groundstroke was going wide.
(7) Continued to fight but was starved of the ball once City scored Ki Sung-yueng 6 Retained possession well in the first half and kept things ticking along for Sunderland although, as the game progressed, became slightly overawed in midfield Sebastian Larsson 6 Scurried around for the hour that he was on the pitch.
(8) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
(9) But it has dawned on me, scurrying through clouds of teargas and slipping on blood, that the protesters are on to a bigger point.
(10) The story of his life mortified him and sent him scurrying for excuses.
(11) After the break, Pablo Hernández, who has the scurrying style of Real Madrid's Angel di María, started the move from which Swansea equalised.
(12) With hundreds of clinical practice parameters in place and hundreds more being developed, clinicians are scurrying just to keep up.
(13) But the idea that Osborne and Gove will scurry off to paint “Vote Boris” on the side of their formidable political machine is fanciful.
(14) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(15) The attorney general, George Brandis, who is said by officials in Canberra to be a torturously slow decision maker, is forced to scurry behind the prime minister with the laptop, drafting the particulars.
(16) Luck that he lived in a village where no one gave a shit about him scurrying about like pastoral Rambo until it became absolutely impossible to ignore.
(17) And Disney have got to get it absolutely right, or risk the kind of abuse which eventually sent Lucas scurrying away from his own space saga in horror at the fanboy monster he had created.
(18) The traffic was almost bumper-to-bumper as I scurried in – partly because of the tight security (several guards are posted outside the main buildings and at junctions).
(19) The news sent her scurrying – not to her home but to her workplace, the headquarters of the Children of the 90s project in Bristol.
(20) Refrigeration units with doors mean customers don’t have to scurry uncomfortably along aisles in near-Arctic conditions and, as they require much smaller quantities of refrigerant, they are easier and safer to run on natural refrigerants.
Scuttle
Definition:
(n.) A broad, shallow basket.
(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
(n.) A quick pace; a short run.
(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government was not aware of, nor is it interested in, what Secretary Kerry announced, which represents a desire to scuttle peace efforts by trying to reach an agreement with the Houthis apart from the government,” Mekhlafi wrote on his official Twitter page.
(2) They can be more direct when Giroud is on the pitch, and more creative when Griezmann scuttles around the attacking third.
(3) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(4) The subsequent collapse of AbbVie’s planned £34bn takeover of the FTSE 100 firm Shire – the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on inversions – showed that the “tax inversion risk, quite frankly, has become a reality”, he said.
(5) And never going anywhere near the goal, scuttling along the ground for a goal kick.
(6) The deal is the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on so-called tax inversions by US companies buying overseas to secure a lower tax rate.
(7) Republicans have thus far had little power to scuttle the agreement, reached last week between six world powers and Iran after nearly two years of negotiations and designed to restrict Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
(8) Boxer described the Republicans’ letter as “bizarre, inappropriate” and a “desperate ploy to scuttle a comprehensive agreement” that she said is “in the best interests of the United States, Israel and the world”.
(9) Over its 60 minutes, it scuttles from Africa to Haiti, where it accuses the Clintons of “disaster capitalism”, to Latin America, India and Russia.
(10) The tight-lipped Brady read out her oath of allegiance and scuttled off, leaving the money shot to Baroness Trumpington.
(11) This move would very likely scuttle the current six-month agreement, end negotiations toward a comprehensive settlement , and put us back on the path to war.
(12) If there is a deal, it will be very costly for Congress to scuttle.
(13) Ruined, lost, burnt, scuttled rigs were healing on the ocean floor and coming back.
(14) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
(15) The Journal reported on Tuesday that not only did Israel spy on Americans negotiating with Iran, but they gave that information to Republicans in Congress, in an attempt to scuttle the deal.
(16) For instance, in his speech, Jeb called for strengthening Egypt, the sclerotic autocracy the United States propped up for decades and whose torture and repression birthed Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood (out from under whose robes al-Qaida scuttled into the world); its current president took power in a coup and is hardly known for his weakness on anything but human rights and press freedoms .
(17) The ball is played into a giant gap between Ferdinand and Jones, where Silva latches on to it and scuttles goalwards.
(18) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
(19) The referee, Neil Swarbrick, ignored the penalty appeals while Mourinho scuttled off to the manager's room to watch a rerun on television before returning pitchside to make his view clear to the fourth official.
(20) The UK recently implemented a new data retention regime which replaced a 2009 European law scuttled by the European court of justice on privacy grounds.