Exempel på scurry

• A small rodent followed, scurrying beneath a wall before I could even jump to my feet and scream.

• News of his imminent arrival sent the support crew scurrying to buy pizza and nonalcoholic cider.

• All of the players who came off the field scurried to the warmest places they could find.

• Suddenly there was a scurry around the bed, screens were put up, and the parents were summoned.

• The action moves between the scurry and chatter of life on Earth and the weightlessness of life in orbit.

• When does the festive season start for you? Christmas Eve, with a scurry round the shops?

• And the velvety texture of the mezzo-soprano, the gentle, chiming ostinati and scurrying strings: sensual not cerebral.

• Such elfin mischiefmakers should surely have lurked and scurried about the stage.

• Everyone was busy and scurrying around trying to get their own work done.

• At various points, speakers and the scurrying sopranos extend the music into the auditorium.

• Then this is just the book to send you scurrying back to the party.

• For the most part, they present material in hushed whispers - scurrying lines constructed from chromatic clusters, often in imitation or even canon - and any dynamic climaxes are swiftly stifled.

• Lost in this abridgment are the city dwellers, seen always at a distance as black dots scurrying along on sun-drenched pavements or as a compact mass in ferries and thoroughfares.

• This sombre view was accompanied by the unceasing scurry and whistle of wind among hundreds of guy wires, and the deep organ tones of the slotted tubular radio masts.

• Although in many presidential election years congressional candidates scurry to appear with the person at the 'top of the ticket', this is not always the case.

• She sent her researchers scurrying to find every bad statistic and every chance remark made by a commentator to construct a dreary litany of gloom.

• This is an engine scurrying ahead of the main line of wagons, blowing its little whistle and emitting a pleasant plume of steam.

• There are litigants in person who go scurrying from court to court with ever-increasing bundles of papers.

• There was a scurry of activity immediately after privatisation.

• They did not talk about scurrying elsewhere or seeking a bolt hole.

• If a sudden weight comes, a man who is midway has to scurry 50 or more yards to get to safety.