scurry
verb (used without object)
to go or move quickly or in haste.
have scurried
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present perfectof scurry.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Opinion polls show that giving people a route to parenthood via IVF is immensely popular, so even conservative lawmakers have scurried to enact laws to protect the method.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Lab equipment and vaccine production facilities have been fabricated or expanded, and humans have scurried this way and the other as the genomic information has been wrangled and studied.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2021
Politicians who had accepted his donations, including former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, have scurried to give them back.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
By the time he has finished, those who don’t want to participate in the show have scurried out of the frame.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017
Beatrice would have scurried after her if I hadn’t given her one of my looks.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
