scamper
verb (used without object)
to run or go hastily or quickly.
are scampering
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present progressiveof scamper.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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People are scampering to leave the city, many on passenger motorcycles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created.
From Time Magazine Archive
I call to the others, who are scampering into a café.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Wild foals are scampering, neighing, Brave merles their hautboys blow: Come! let us go a-maying As in the Long-Ago.
From Poems by William Ernest Henley
Rats are scampering along among the wet stones, and then a vagrant dog poking about amid some garbage howls dismally.
From Madame Midas by Fergus Hume
