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How to use scurried in a sentence

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Radio stations reported brief power outages and said residents of some areas scurried into the streets, fearing their houses might collapse.
His companion scurried to obey him, unclipping a ring of heavy keys from somewhere inside his voluminous robes.
Blue and white butterflies fluttered to and fro, and small furry forest creatures scurried about.
They scurried to plant batteries, dig trenches and strengthen their fortifications.
Frogs croaked at intervals, and other night creatures scurried over the leaves.
Sadly, as with many good things, doom cryers scurried up from their disgruntled burrows, saw people having a good time, and cudgeled the party.
I scurried up and crawled into bed, pulling myself under the comfortable covers.
A slave appeared in the half-open doorway and scurried away at Adriana's emphatic gesture.
The waiter scurried away to return very quickly with a large Purple Star painted ceramic plate, filled with my English breakfast.
Experts scurried to explain their errant prognostications, which had asserted that the race would be too close to call.
Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
So I scurried up to my office, got the transcript of the questions and answers, came back to the House, and took a point of order.
Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain.
Hens scurried in tiny apple orchards amid signs advertising Calvados and farm cider.
She grabbed her long, black pea coat, slipped on her sneakers, swung on her deep red backpack, and scurried out the door.
They clustered here and there in little clumps, whispering, while Reynard's crew scurried around reefing the sails.
I returned my thank you and scurried off, feeling bad, pausing only briefly at the door to refasten my Barbour against the wind.
Using his exceptionally nimble footwork, he scurried away to the leg side and swatted the ball into the empty offside field.
The umpire played a let, as ballboys and girls scurried around reassembling Miss Whatley's paperwork.
The occasional frightened servant scurried past every so often but the liegeman said nothing as they walked down the large hallway.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Ahead a torpedo boat destroyer of the United States Navy scurried briskly, often scooting off to one side of the course.
Rara clutched her box of trinkets and scurried to the corner, then melded with the herding crowd for two blocks into the slums.
Indeed, as he spoke a flittermouse scurried through the air within a foot of her ear.
The yelling Indians had had their blunt warning and now scurried for cover.
Eccles jumped down from the box and scurried to open the front door.
He whined pleadingly, and scurried playfully in and out of the underbrush.
They scurried with tickling little feet and he could not sleep.
The surgeon scurried away while Dal took another look at the micro field.
Back and forth they scurried to the sound of that guttural Japanese voice.
As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground.
A single glance he took at that gaunt, familiar figure and then he turned tail and scurried back to his canoe calling his followers after him.
When Tantor trumpeted, the great ape scurried with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace.
No sooner had they bought the chops than they scurried away like two gleeful children to cook them.
They shot two snakes, and when two others slithered into holes, the girls scurried through the clearing and down the hillside to safety.
She scurried out, and returned a moment later with a thick bath towel.
It was the first great storm of the breaking up of the monsoon, and under the cover of its darkness Sing Lee scurried through the monster filled campong to the bungalow.
Seizing it in a chela he leaped to the floor and scurried rapidly toward the mouth of one of the burrows against the wall, into which he disappeared.
He had scurried around and nosed out Martin's family history, and procured a photograph of Higginbotham's Cash Store with Bernard Higginbotham himself standing out in front.
Practicing for the end-of-the week talent show, campers in Powhatan cabin scurried around the room acting out a skit from a trashy nighttime talk show.
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