scoot
verb (used without object)
to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
was scooting
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past progressiveof scoot.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But soon he was scooting his walker around the kitchen and curiously opening cabinets as Butler scrambled eggs, one of a growing number of soft and pureed foods he can now ingest.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
Dahalia: “She was beeping her horn, and she was scooting up.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2017
No one, it turned out, but that madman Yossarian, who brought him down with a flying tackle one day as he was scooting along the bottom of the ditch to his trailer for lunch.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
“So-ho!” cried Kay, throwing his arm upward to give the hawk a better take-off, and a rabbit was scooting across the close-nibbled turf in front of them, and Cully was in the air.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He was scooting up the street in his auto just as I was coming in, 'honking-honking' his horn to beat the band!
From Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
