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
They are scampering off like wild animals that fly just before the bank of a river breaks down into the water.
From The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore
That, too, when some of the men are scampering for cover, and ducking chance pellets from the woolly white cloud that breaks overhead.
From Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason
