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Scuttling meaning
present participle and gerund of scuttle
Example sentences (20)
Ah yes, I’ll think, as I hear scavengers scuttling towards my body across the trashscape, grunting and hooting for meat: that was the moment.
Biden officials have suggested that scuttling the normalization effort may have been a motivation of Hamas but the president’s remarks appear the furthest anyone in his administration has gone to suggest a direct correlation.
He blamed conspiracy theories for scuttling the company’s chances of winning business in Yavapai County, a conservative rural county north of Phoenix.
Like a scuttling crab, the sun would then reverse and head south.
She said: “The Labour controlled city of Birmingham Council following the Labour controlled Liverpool City council into scuttling around, handing out redundancy notices to its own workers in the wake of bankruptcy.
The ideal set up for 503’s intimate auditorium, the play is set in a cottage in the woods where the window won’t stay shut and feathers fall from the ceiling –- and every now and then, you hear a scuttling.
It was rather disquieting to think of someone scuttling up the dark staircase some 500 years ago with just a candle to light their way.
Red lights and sirens took over Hall H followed by animatronic facehuggers scuttling across the stage and an actor succumbing to a chestbuster.
Scuttling the nuclear deal with Iran had no effect on Tehran’s mullahs, except to spur them to revive their uranium-enrichment program, which the deal had halted.
Some courageous attacking play in the wide channels worked nicely against the Kiwi blitz defence but the Wallabies also cost themselves with pushed passes and handling errors, scuttling chances to score and keep the contest tight.
While the majority stayed with Harris, Election Day surveys suggest some in those groups either shifted in Trump’s direction or shunned the polls, scuttling the Democrats’ hopes of holding on to the White House.
A distributor for Co-Diagnostics offered Maryland more than 500,000 tests at a cheaper cost during a call on 10 April, according to a person familiar with the pitch who requested anonymity to avoid scuttling future potential business.
And that was the tenor of the statement he sent to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this week, warning Israel’s leaders against scuttling the two-state solution — which he sees as critical to Israel’s survival — by annexing parts of the West Bank.
But her brother later any further military actions aimed at scuttling the relatively warm relationship that had developed between the two Koreas in recent years.
If the initiatives are brought under the umbrella of SAARC, then Pakistan will have the option of scuttling them by pressing for the principle of consensus in drafting of agenda, outcome document and on all other related issues at every step, they said.
It makes former Senate President Olusola Saraki appear like one with a halo for simply scuttling the barbarous counsel that would have made the draconian bills such disturbers of the peace in the Eight Senate.
Now, the canal is filled with tiny fish, scuttling crabs, and an array of multicoloured plants.
The open streets initiative was unveiled in late April, in partnership with the City Council, after transportation advocates and elected officials to revisit the concept, after scuttling a car-free streets pilot only 11 days after its launch.
The party condemned the governor’s actions as a show of desperation and called on INEC, NCDC, Police, DSS and other security forces to refrain from succumbing to his desperate antics at scuttling the scheduled primary election.
Trump and his cronies are making America more dangerous again by scuttling protections that reduce deaths, injuries, and illnesses.