Example Sentences

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Some will step up and some will scarper.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2017

It is unlikely that your betrothed will scarper on horseback, as Julia Roberts did in “Runaway Bride”, and most insurers wouldn’t cover that anyway.

From Economist • Oct. 9, 2014

His cynical crony Grimwig, who insists that all boys are bad, bets that he will scarper.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2011