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