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

Rats are scampering along among the wet stones, and then a vagrant dog poking about amid some garbage howls dismally.

From Madame Midas by Hume, Fergus

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 Tagore, Rabindranath