Meanings of scrabble back in English

I pushed with my feet to scrabble back faster.

They scrabble back through the bush to the dirt road and down to the asphalt.

More and more, they crane those long necks, stretch and flap their wings, move around in the tree, scrabble back nestwards.

I shrieked, scrabbling back, Lego blocks and Tinkertoys biting into my palms.

She turned and scrabbled back, trying to keep a low profile.

Turned the key and scrabbling back to the morning room, waiting under the table.

I scrabbled back, blinded by the terrible sight before me, but the grip wouldn't ease.

I scrabbled back toward the comparative safety of the roof and watched as the scaffolding lurched away.

Terry scrabbled back after Agüero like a man in tearful doomed pursuit of the last night bus.

The look that she shot him soon had him scrabbling back up the rigging and out of sight.

Before Brys could reach out a hand in comfort, the child scrabbled back to her feet and ran on.

Anexus scrabbled back, eyes wide.

He pushed in the lighter, waited for it to pop out, arrived with it just as Downing was scrabbling back out.

Doyle screamed and scrabbled back across the floor away from the gleeful thing-with difficulty, for the floor had again begun its rising and falling tricks.