Example Sentences

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About 30 scarpered through a tear in a fence at farm shop Basecamp North Lakes, near Troutbeck, and fled on to the road on Monday evening.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2023

She said that the group "scarpered" before emergency services arrived.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2022

All I kept thinking as I scarpered out of the Winter Garden was: They didn’t know the territory.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

He scrabbled with all four paws, found some purchase, and scarpered up the slope and away.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2021

Had to find someone close by to take the injured kid, Mitraillette managed that, and the rest of us scarpered on bicycles and on foot.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein