Meanings of skitter across in English

Cards and chips and bills go flying, then skitter across the floor.

We heard Isabel's bare feet skitter across the linoleum in the living room.

He saw Tasslehoff skitter across the courtyard and into a doorway.

The recoil caused the gun to skitter across the concrete floor towards the thug.

Her heart slammed against her chest when she saw fear skitter across his face.

He reeled in the line, watching the fly skitter across the water in fits and starts, but nothing bit.

Rice grains skitter across marble.

After watching a plastic bag skitter across the street and paste itself to the windshield, I broke the silence.

Watching it skitter across the (bone.

When the footpads of her wheels pass over these vials, they tiddlywink out from underneath and skitter across the pavement.

Water rail Water rails are shy, reedbed dwelling bird which becomes more visible in winter as they skitter across frozen ponds.

In one noteworthy example, Dr. Uli Westpher was ready to ship his first "crickets"-thumb-sizeddevices programmed to skitter across a landing field.

It ricocheted against the opposite wall and went skittering across the floor.

A writing tablet skittered across the stone and crashed to the floor.

It skittered across the glass floor, now a cracked and scattered jigsaw.

It is hard to sleep when roaches keep skittering across your body.