On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Scurrying. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as hurrying or fast and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Scurrying meaning
present participle and gerund of scurry
Using Scurrying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of scurry
- Useful related words include: hurrying, fast.
- In the example corpus, scurrying often appears in combinations such as: scurrying to, scurrying around, were scurrying.
Context around Scurrying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scurrying
- In this selection, "scurrying" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, scientists, onlookers, salah, home, across and away stand out and add context to how "scurrying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a couple scurrying by perhaps and an opossum scurrying away with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scurrying" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scurrying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A small brown rodent, scurrying furtively this way and that. (10 words)
The suspect goes behind a desk and begins scurrying through drawers. (11 words)
Vancouver was one such city where a lot more rats were scurrying about. (13 words)
Robinson drew a two-out walk and then the game came to its exciting conclusion when Shiveley drove a two-base hit to center that sent Robinson scurrying home and sent the home team into celebration mode. (37 words)
A video of the avalanche shared on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed a wall of snow roaring down a mountain side, sending skiers and other onlookers scurrying for safety. (33 words)
The terrifying scurrying of tiny feet running across the floor starts up again, and Jerry's jaw drop as he sees something that chills him to the bone. (28 words)
The emptiness was interrupted only by a solitary person or a couple scurrying by — perhaps a technician or a cameraman or residents of Vatican City? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
A marine heatwave off the coasts of the UK and Ireland has sent scientists scurrying to check the record books.
A video of the avalanche shared on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed a wall of snow roaring down a mountain side, sending skiers and other onlookers scurrying for safety.
Gallagher, in the centre circle, makes a lunging tackle to stop Salah scurrying through on goal.
Robinson drew a two-out walk and then the game came to its exciting conclusion when Shiveley drove a two-base hit to center that sent Robinson scurrying home and sent the home team into celebration mode.
The gun shots also sent staff and customers at the mall scurrying in a panic.
The suspect goes behind a desk and begins scurrying through drawers.
The terrifying scurrying of tiny feet running across the floor starts up again, and Jerry's jaw drop as he sees something that chills him to the bone.
When the pair opened the iconic gullwing doors, mice could be seen scurrying about inside.
After being sighted scurrying around the undergrowth of the Crawley Downs near is now living in an animal shelter.
Along the way we saw a few lizards, probably out eating the plethora of ants scurrying about.
If you've noticed more rats scurrying around lately, it's not just your imagination.
Over the past year or so, there has been a growing infestation of ‘hot rodent men’ (as they’ve been dubbed by the internet) scurrying across our screens.
The mayor, during his rat summit remarks, alluded to something always “scurrying around” his family farm in Alabama.
The video footage shows an opossum scurrying away with the package, seemingly on a mission to collect all the neighborhood goodies.
A small brown rodent, scurrying furtively this way and that.
On a recent afternoon, a steady stream of customers dropped in, keeping Hernández scurrying as she filled their orders for the whole range of products she offers.
The emptiness was interrupted only by a solitary person or a couple scurrying by — perhaps a technician or a cameraman or residents of Vatican City?
Two “runners” were scurrying around as taking down the number of how many people in each vehicle and then running into the building to grab the packaged meals.
Vancouver was one such city where a lot more rats were scurrying about.
What made us mad is that we could see the Japs scurrying around their decks and manning the guns.
Common combinations with scurrying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: