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Meanings of skitter in English
Catalan
escapolir-se Synonyms
Examples for "scuttle"
Examples for "scuttle"
1
I've seen 'em scuttle right up a hork tree after a howler.
2
In the shed, however, he put down the scuttle and stood still.
3
Ryan described the mail-fraud charge that threatened to scuttle Ricca's parole chances.
4
The tramp had managed to get through a scuttle on the roof.
5
When the cold light of day dawns they scuttle away and hide.
1
They began an upward scamper which they would never have believed possible.
2
Off they scamper for a peep through the windows of the house.
3
But there is this difference-thatover the Benares roofs the monkeys scamper.
4
In a wild scamper we were off, leaping logs and dodging trees.
5
The Vikings answered with a touchdown set up by Cook's 70-yard scamper.
1
There was a wild scurry of wings; then the other bird dropt.
2
And people scurry about losing themselves in cogs and springs and levers.
3
The machine strikes little drifts, and they scurry away in a cloud.
4
He left the woodchucks to scurry about the pasture as they pleased.
5
We saddled the donkey, and my mother went hurry-scurry to the château.
Usage of skitter in English
1
Cards and chips and bills go flying, then skitter across the floor.
2
Watching my thoughts skitter through my chaotic mind is excruciating for me.
3
Murphy dropped the Bradfield, letting it skitter away across the silicon roof.
4
He puts the cigarettes down on the worktable where they skitter, wind-shifted.
5
But while it did skitter around me, it never came any nearer.
6
Alia lay back and relaxed, letting the scorpions skitter over her body.
7
The skitter of dirt cascading from the undersurface of the hatch cover.
8
It's causing the magnetic North Pole to 'skitter' away from Canada, towards Siberia.
9
We heard Isabel's bare feet skitter across the linoleum in the living room.
10
They skitter-screeched forward at an angle, heading straight for the flatbed.
11
He saw Tasslehoff skitter across the courtyard and into a doorway.
12
The mutts fall to their bellies and skitter toward us on all fours.
13
Eliana's eyes skitter without purchase across the scene unfolding before her.
14
Even then we haven't missed anything large enough to hide up a skitter.
15
The recoil caused the gun to skitter across the concrete floor towards the thug.
16
Even though Adesina's mind wanted to skitter away from that memory, it rose up.
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Skitter through the time
Skitter across language varieties
United States of America
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