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Example sentences for "skurry"

Lexicographically close words:
skulled; skulls; skunk; skunks; skurried; skurrying; skuse; sky; skyblue; skyey
  1. She would hang from a curtain cord, spring thence to the top of a door, pounce on a bowing caller's back, and, within ten seconds fill the hall with such skurry and commotion that Hecate and all her witches could have done no more.

  2. After much deliberation and consultation, they would stealthily steal out and skurry about the floor like rats for a while, hunting for bugs and worms.

  3. At stated intervals, pale blue smoke would burst from the vessel, followed by a hurry-skurry of gulls in the vicinity, and then the roar, muffled by distance.

  4. The pulling and hauling, the hurry-skurry of the mad exit must be left to the imagination.

  5. One or two men were also wounded by the same shell, which was the signal for a skurry for shelter behind huge boulders.

  6. The first skurry is over; and we are gratified to see the four quadrupeds still grouped around the tree, and fast as ever to its branches.

  7. When the hot skurry had ended, the remnant of the prairie-horsemen was seen heading down the valley, followed by the four bands of the Utahs--who had now closed together.

  8. In their hurry-skurry they ran against and confounded one another.

  9. When I came here on purpose to have a skurry over the country with you, you went away to Holcombe Cross though you could have hunted here, close in the neighbourhood.

  10. To tell the truth we didn't try; but we had a nice little skurry for four or five miles.


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