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Meanings of scurrying in английском

Moving with great haste.

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Examples for "hurrying"
Examples for "hurrying"
1
Because Buttercup moved into view, hurrying from the house to her parents.
The Princess Bride
2
The next minute she was hurrying along the trail in the moonlight.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
3
And by hurrying the out-fielder he increases the probability of an error.
Base-Ball / How to Become a Player, With the Origin, History and...
4
Right in the midst of the busy hurrying throng of Union Square
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
5
Yet she found herself hurrying past them, unable to meet their gaze.
Damaged
Usage of scurrying in английском
1
When Musa's grisly work is done, I send slaves scurrying for water.
Daughters of the Nile
2
Emily climbed out of the water and started scurrying up the hill.
Pretty Little Liars
3
Today everything was congestion, the scurrying of crowds; men had become ant-like.
Three Soldiers
4
From overhead came the sounds of small things scurrying within the ceiling.
The Great Book of Amber
5
A hundred wild schemes and projects came and went in scurrying confusion.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
6
By the light of the conflagration Thrall could see forms scurrying about.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
7
The change in his demeanor sent a chill scurrying through my mind.
Cross Bones
8
The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place.
The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter
9
He saw the reavers scurrying forward, glimpsed gray carapaces beneath the trees.
Wizardborn
10
All the office doors were open, and clerks and secretaries were scurrying.
The Demolished Man
11
The great train stopped and vomited forth its horde of scurrying humans.
The Mountebank
12
It would normally be enough to send investors scurrying into safe havens.
Reuters
13
Their exclamations were what sent her scurrying back to her own room.
The new yorker
14
We could see the men scurrying to and fro at his orders.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
15
He got up from the sofa and went scurrying to a closet.
The Delegate from Venus
16
Flying flakes of foam were scurrying over the sand like elfin things.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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