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Example sentences for "scuffling"

Lexicographically close words:
scuffed; scuffing; scuffle; scuffled; scuffles; sculapius; scull; sculled; sculler; scullers
  1. They passed on, and I heard their door close, after which there was a loud scuffling and bumping from the other sides accompanied by smothered laughter and dull blows.

  2. Just then there came a scuffling noise from the interior, where a door, partially open, led from the old office to the rear room.

  3. Heard 'em scuffling about like fun over the other side," said the man.

  4. There was more scuffling of feet, and then the two men went on talking.

  5. I am not speaking from temper, but in a friendly way, for sport, as that workman of yours said when he was scuffling with Dmitri, in the case of the old woman.

  6. She could have kissed her hand to the loud-voiced woman who came scuffling to the window to scold them, clutching a dirty kimono together over a Hogarth-like expanse of bosom.

  7. Professor Marshall continued to walk rapidly, scuffling in his loose, unlaced shoes.

  8. Then more and more desperate scuffling with muttering.

  9. There was a sound of scuffling on the stone floor below and on the stairs.

  10. Upstairs the scuffling and the struggling became frightful.

  11. There was a scuffling rustle, as of birds in a chimney, all over the basement of the house.

  12. The groaning which Concha had heard was stilled, but as El Sarria held up his hand for silence they could hear something scuffling away along the dark passages like rats behind a wainscot.

  13. The hardest blows are those given with the tongue, though much pulling of hair and scuffling takes place.

  14. They spent the whole night, till five this morning, scuffling and vociferating in the street.

  15. Then came a great deal of hissing before the strain was taken up again, and accompanied by a good deal of scuffling on the beach-strewn path.

  16. Bigley dragged his arm out of the crack and came scuffling back to us, and as soon as he reached the opening we could see that he looked quite pale.

  17. That was enough, and throwing the match away, I began to back towards the lookers-on, but hearing a scuffling noise among the stones, I looked round to see that they were both running.

  18. Lanfear turned, and saw scuffling and heard puffing towards them the short, stout elderly gentleman who had sent him to her.

  19. After that there was silence for another moment or two, while the two men swayed and strained with scuffling feet, until one of them suddenly relaxed his hold, and, reeling backwards, plunged down the verandah stairway.

  20. He felt himself driven into a bank of snow, and lay there for perhaps a minute wondering vaguely if the life had all been smashed out of him, and listening to a sound of scuffling and floundering close by.

  21. Then followed a yell, a jabbering of a frightened native, and a scuffling about.

  22. As he spoke, the sound of some one running quickly in the room overhead was distinctly audible; then came a scuffling noise, and then a heavyish fall.

  23. Every one was eager to have one, and sprung to catch them, scuffling and struggling and making the parchment sound on his neighbor's head.

  24. From the Scuffling mob round the heaps of cast-off clothes came deep groans, piteous weeping, the shrieks of women, and the despairing moans of the panic-stricken wretches.

  25. As the third drop fell into the glass there was a strange noise outside--a dull scuffling of feet, mutterings of voices, and then a low imperious tapping on the panel of the door.

  26. John Whyley stood perfectly still and invisible in the fog, as the surgery door was opened; there was a low scuffling noise, and a hurried whispering.

  27. He could hear the terrier whimpering and scuffling on the other side as he attempted to climb the barrier, and dug the deeper.

  28. It was impossible, with the cheering and stamping and shouting and laughing, and scuffling overhead, to do a stroke of work, and yet George did his best.


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