Example Sentences

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His winks had been darting across the mat like circus fleas getting performance-related pay.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2019

Witnesses and officials said that Mr. Broadnax had been darting in front of cars at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue starting about 9:30 p.m.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2013

Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had passed on to the photograph—Vanderbank had many, too many photographs—of some other relation, and stood wiping the gold-mounted glasses through which he had been darting admirations and catching side-lights for shocks.

From The Awkward Age by James, Henry

He lifted his eyes to the nearest loophole, through which the setting sun had been darting its rays a moment before.

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John