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Example sentences for "scuttering"

Lexicographically close words:
scutellation; scutellum; scutes; scuto; scutt; scuttle; scuttlebutt; scuttled; scuttles; scuttling
  1. Behold him, then, one raw March morning, scuttering along the road that leads from Arles to Salon, in Provence.

  2. He heard the sound of scuttering feet as they closed in again.

  3. He heard the sound of scuttering feet as his enemies withdrew.

  4. In the house itself there was a coming and going of scuttering footsteps, a rushing and dying away of hurried voices, and long, uneasy stillnesses.

  5. One felt that at any time an indiscreet hoot of the steamer might send them scuttering back to the forest depths.

  6. His last glimpse of his cousins' home was of two little serving-maids scuttering up with dusters to remove the defilement.

  7. It was large, dark and high, full of servant-girls scuttering about like little mice, who bowed and then fled when the two ladies came in.

  8. We saw some brown rats, too, scuttering among the undergrowth, and these put Billy in mind of the rats in the Lovey Susan, which sometimes ran across the face of the seamen in the forecastle when they slept.


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