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Example sentences for "scooting"

Lexicographically close words:
scoops; scoor; scoot; scooted; scooter; scoots; scope; scoperte; scopes; scopulos
  1. I stopped and looked over my shoulder, and he gave me a little scooting gesture that meant go on.

  2. I saw boys my age scooting around in jet-packs, dodging hover-traffic.

  3. She is perfectly capable of taking it in her head to go scooting off to Earth if you turn your back on her.

  4. After all, if he didn't want the girl to steal a flitterboat and go scooting off into the diamond-studded velvet, all he'd have to do would be to guard the flitterboats.

  5. She had started gallantly, scooting along the level road that flies straight west of Fargo.

  6. While scooting up the ladder we heard a gun; and another gun.

  7. He hooks into one, lashes it under his quarter and goes scooting back to harbor, which happens to be the naval base.

  8. He grew quite familiar with the attic part of it, scooting up there whenever we raised a sail, and remaining for days at a time when a ship was in port.

  9. Oa Bay was safe so long as they didn't try to make a fight of it; and he could have laughed to see the terrified women scooting for the church, the children bawling at their heels.

  10. In an instant he was a-wing with terror, scooting toward the thick of the woods.

  11. And the shakes went scooting up an' down my backbone, an' my heart nearly stopped and I could skasely breathe.

  12. I gave a yell, then turned over on my back, with my hands clasped behind my head to protect it from the shock, and the next minute I were scooting down the river for the sea, with that wall howling behind me like a thousand thunders.

  13. Scooting into a city with a swagger to their dust-caked wheels.

  14. One may stare at a taxi scooting by and think with no incongruity of Carlyle's "Night of Spurs"--with Louis and his harried Antoinette flying the guillotine.

  15. When it gets dark, you go scooting down the Tobin's Harbor trail.

  16. Choosing the middle one of these, he dropped low to go scooting along less than two hundred feet in air.

  17. Sometimes I would stand up and bite a rag-nail off my finger while watching a hare scooting across the brown of the moor.

  18. Luckily I blundered into one of his men, and scooting across a mile of heavy plough, I arrived breathless at the bridge, but just in time.

  19. But when the shelling was hottest there was usually work for the despatch rider--and getting away from the unhealthy area before scooting down the Annequin road was a heart-thumping job.

  20. It was a dainty sight--the lorries scooting across, while the escort took cover.

  21. Outside, the sounds of some one scooting rapidly away brought to Jim a thought of Keno's recently demonstrated presence of mind.

  22. He let out a yowp that scared himself half into fits, and, scooting from under the danger, turned about and flung a fearful challenge of barking at the prostrate enemy.

  23. Dave promptly gave orders that sent the "Logan" scooting further away from the transport fleet, out on its port flank.

  24. Ahead a torpedo boat destroyer of the United States Navy scurried briskly, often scooting off to one side of the course.

  25. Shoot him or something," screamed the professor, scooting round in circles like a professional runner; for he knew that if he stopped the creature would surely nip him hard.

  26. I don't see why any one who could keep out of the cold at night, would want to go scooting around in an airship in the dark for," said Billy, when they were all seated in their own hut.

  27. Whilst I is lingering there wondering what I better do next, if anything, I sees a street-car go scooting by up at the next crossing, and I gets an idea.

  28. The biggest fire-engine ever I sees goes scooting by, tearing the road wide open and making a most awful racket.

  29. We could see him scooting pell mell around the edge of the cooking shack, his spindle legs as thin as sticks.

  30. We saw it stop at the station in Catskill and we heard the bell ring and saw it start again and go scooting along the shore and far away, till we couldn't see it any more.

  31. There are a heap of people in this old city of New York, Freshie, and you will find 'em on the surface or scooting in the elevated and here jogging along underneath the earth.

  32. We go scooting over the hills, We go tooting back to town.

  33. Next thing I knew we was scooting back towards Dillaway's, with the sail catching every ounce that was blowing.

  34. Next thing anybody knew, the launch was scooting for blue water like a streak of what she was named for, and the hunting chaplain was churning up foam like a mill wheel.

  35. I had thrown out half a dozen marines as sentries--only ten yards in front of our bank--and one or other of them kept on letting off their rifles and scooting back.

  36. He’s just been scooting about here, there--anywhere.

  37. It is all very nice to be aboard here, scooting along under the sea, but we ought to be home.

  38. Then Raggedy Andy climbed into the gutter himself and, taking a few steps, spread out his feet and went scooting down the shiny tin.

  39. It was heaps of fun, for there was a little hill at one end of the pond so that when we coasted down, we went scooting across the pond like an arrow.

  40. Raggedy Andy took her in his rag hand and gave her a great swing which sent her scooting down the shiny tin gutter, "Kerswish!

  41. It was our train scooting along around the mountains.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scooting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.