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Example sentences for "scramble"

Lexicographically close words:
scrabbling; scrag; scragged; scraggly; scraggy; scrambled; scrambler; scrambles; scrambling; scran
  1. Little White Bear didn't scramble out as fast as ever he could!

  2. Then there would be a scramble to see who would get to it first.

  3. To scramble out altogether was then an easy job, and in another instant he was beside the sleigh.

  4. The rest of the pack rush at the gap already made, and scramble through, jostling one another.

  5. And now he hears the keeper beginning to scramble up the trunk.

  6. Rich noblemen must now-a-days be useful men; and if they can't leap over briars, they must scramble through them.

  7. Upon this blind scramble depends the future of the race!

  8. If they found you--" He made no reply, but began to scramble up the tree and out upon a limb which climbed upward past the window, not distant from it.

  9. So we scramble along, until we reach a place where the river sweeps against the wall.

  10. Then I turn down stream again and scramble along to look for the boat that has gone over.

  11. Often during his months in England, Pansy would scramble on his knee and say: "Daddy, tell me the story of Casim Ammeh.

  12. When people get into the depths they should remember that; it'll help them to scramble out.

  13. It is utterly untrue that there was either a scramble for property or a general confiscation; the classes who took part with the foreign invaders lost their property, as they would have done here, and ought to do everywhere.

  14. The Goat-mother gathered up her skirts, and assisted by Pyto, began to scramble down the bank to the side of the streamlet.

  15. Let me down something, and perhaps I can scramble out again.

  16. Fortunately Knut and Otto were good swimmers, and they were able after some struggling to scramble to the shore; but they found to their great annoyance that they had landed on the same side as that from which they had started.

  17. They saw him scramble up the bank, lie for an instant half exhausted, and then come running down the shore to them.

  18. Providentially, no lives were lost, everybody being picked up by the giassas or managing to scramble ashore.

  19. Young Robert Grenfell was probably struck from behind with a Mahdist sword blade, and killed instantly as his charger was endeavouring to scramble up the wall of loose stones and rock.

  20. They seem possessed almost of a conscious life, and to push and shove and scramble for place like a hard-headed, thick-skinned, piratical crew.

  21. The bees push in rudely among the bunches of stamens, and the red anthers so neatly and compactly arranged are soon disheveled, the filaments bent by the myriad insect legs which scramble and kick through them.

  22. Here is the frontier, the edge of their world, and one and all would scramble over the border could they sustain life on the other side.

  23. Richenda plunged at once into the scramble for house-slippers, but Louie, not having put on her garden boots that day, did not need to change.

  24. As at Sunbridge, it was a rush and a scramble at the last.

  25. I knew she'd put you with Cordelia," chuckled Bertha to Tilly, under cover of their scramble to pick out their suit-cases from the pile in which the porter had left them.

  26. By the time Frank had struck the creature again, he did not scramble up so quickly.

  27. Diamond was the first to stir, and he tried to scramble up, his one thought being to mount his wheel again and ride onward toward the shimmering lure.

  28. I managed to scramble on towards the camp, but could not manage more than quarter of a mile an hour.

  29. Men of gentle blood and coat-armor made war upon each other, and the others, spearmen or archers, could scramble amongst themselves.

  30. By a desperate scramble a dozen men, the Prince at their head, gained a footing on the edge of the Spaniard's deck.

  31. There was a joyous scramble amongst them, for the plunder of eleven years, gold and jewels, satins and velvets, rich plate and noble hangings were all to be had for the taking.

  32. No sooner was a fowl sighted than there was a general scramble for it; some reckless fellows used their rifles to shoot the chickens, and many a cartridge was expended uselessly for which due punishment was frequently awarded.

  33. Tamb' Itam had just time to scramble in after him when the canoe floated clear.

  34. When we came to the poultry-run, we found that the dogs had already scratched a good-sized hole beneath the palings, and within a little they would have been able to scramble through and work havoc among our fowls.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scramble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    action; ado; agitation; alloy; amalgamate; argot; ascend; assemblage; assortment; babble; battle; blend; bolt; bombing; bother; box; brawl; broil; brush; bullfight; bundle; burst; bustle; cant; career; chase; cipher; clash; close; clutter; coalesce; code; collide; combat; combine; commingle; commotion; complicate; compose; compound; concoct; conflict; confound; confuse; conglomerate; conglomeration; contend; contest; cover; crawl; crawling; creep; creeping; crowd; dart; dash; disorder; disturbance; drive; duel; embroilment; emulsify; fence; ferment; feud; fight; fit; flap; fling; flurry; fluster; flutter; fracas; fray; fumble; fuse; fuss; gibberish; grapple; grovel; hash; hassle; hasten; hie; hubbub; hullabaloo; hump; hurry; hurtle; hustle; inch; integrate; interlace; interlard; intermingle; intermix; intertwine; interweave; jargon; jostle; joust; jumble; jungle; knead; leap; litter; maelstrom; magpie; mash; medley; melange; melee; merge; mess; mingle; miscellany; mission; mix; muddle; mystify; noise; obscure; olio; pad; padding; patchwork; plunge; post; pother; potpourri; prowl; push; quarrel; race; racket; ramble; rampage; reconnaissance; restlessness; riffle; riot; roughhouse; row; ruckus; rumble; rummage; rumpus; run; rush; salad; sauce; scamper; scoot; scour; scramble; scrimmage; scud; scuffle; scurry; scuttle; shadow; shindy; shoot; shuffle; sidle; skedaddle; skirmish; slang; slink; snake; snarl; sneak; sneaking; sortie; spar; spasm; speed; sprawl; spurt; steal; stealing; stew; stir; straddle; straggle; strive; struggle; sweat; swirl; tangle; tear; tilt; tiptoe; tourney; trouble; tumble; tumult; turmoil; tussle; umbrella; uproar; vortex; war; welter; whirl; work; worm; wrestle