How do you use Scurried in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Scurried meaning
simple past and past participle of scurry
Using Scurried
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of scurry
- In the example corpus, scurried often appears in combinations such as: scurried to, scurried for, scurried into.
Context around Scurried
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scurried
- In this selection, "scurried" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, banks, mjf, donadoni, across, down and away stand out and add context to how "scurried" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1970 banks scurried across his and and then scurried down the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scurried" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scurried
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The heels scurried off as Robinson hyped the main event. (10 words)
They awoke to a rumble and scurried out of the house. (11 words)
Chickens scurried to the corner of the coop to witness the activity. (12 words)
She sunk a three that put CU back in front, created a takeaway on the defensive end, and then scurried down the court to connect on a second-consecutive lead, more than doubling her team’s point total in under 60 seconds. (42 words)
As he spoke on a highway overpass, troops loyal to Maduro sporadically fired tear gas from inside the adjacent Carlota air base as the crowd of a few hundred civilians, some of them brandishing Venezuelan flags, scurried for cover. (39 words)
Woods, who was 12 strokes off the lead at the time, turned with a glance toward the Johnson group, which moved on to the third tee as scores of onlookers scurried to keep up. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, the area was almost deserted as the scared locals had scurried to hide in their homes.
She sunk a three that put CU back in front, created a takeaway on the defensive end, and then scurried down the court to connect on a second-consecutive lead, more than doubling her team’s point total in under 60 seconds.
Defensively, he’s impressed too in the way he’s scurried around the pitch.
MJF scurried out of the ring as Cole took his time climbing to the top rope.
Donadoni scurried away from Bakero on the left, another lovely run, before cutting the ball back to Savicevic at the far post.
Jaguars RB James Robinson scurried into the end zone on a 17-yard rush to make it a 24-17 game.
They awoke to a rumble and scurried out of the house.
Woods, who was 12 strokes off the lead at the time, turned with a glance toward the Johnson group, which moved on to the third tee as scores of onlookers scurried to keep up.
A crowd that quickly swelled to a few thousand scurried for cover, reassembling later with Guaidó to a nearby plaza.
As an elite police squad rumbled up the hill, passing murals that have been defaced with graffiti paying homage to a dominant drug gang, a group of suspected traffickers scurried into a house.
As he spoke on a highway overpass, troops loyal to Maduro sporadically fired tear gas from inside the adjacent Carlota air base as the crowd of a few hundred civilians, some of them brandishing Venezuelan flags, scurried for cover.
At the next World Cup in Mexico in 1970, Banks scurried across his line and dived to his right to stop a downward header from Pele.
Chickens scurried to the corner of the coop to witness the activity.
Four years later at the next World Cup in Mexico, Banks scurried across his line and dived to his right in an attempt to stop a downward header from Pele.
In responding to this, Lewis’ junior counsel scurried to the back of the court to consult the Americans again while Lewis actually told the judge he was “taking instructions from those behind”.
In the confusing aftermath of the failed rebellion, they scurried for protection on the back of motorcycles, stripping off their olive green fatigues and knocking, unsuccessfully at first, on several embassy doors.
The heels scurried off as Robinson hyped the main event.
The other three scurried to such refuges as loofahs and soap dishes, but this fellow stayed on full alert.
Becky then it an Exploder into the barrier and scurried into the ring, hoping for a countout.
Most of them, who were deep in sleep, only to be woken up by the terrific sound of the inferno, scurried for safety.
Common combinations with scurried
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: