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scurry away

vb. To run away.

Usage examples of "scurry away".

The wounded drider tried to scurry away but fell to the side, its insides draining out onto the stone floor.

Here and there, a litter fought its way through the mob, guards clearing a path ahead of the bearers, striking with clubs at those who did not scurry away quickly enough.

He watched Lizzie scurry away, thin shoulders hunched against the crowd.

Victoria was forced to drop the terrified wood-mouse before she had done any real damage and I saw with satisfaction the little creature scurry away into a dark corner and no doubt down a dark hole.

She saw a chuck scurry away in a far corner, and the stack of shells rattled.

People who would normally scurry away like whipped dogs from a spur wearer's whip were shouting for food and justice.

The watchers wouldn't pop out of hiding and confront the fugitives themselves, They'd scurry away to rouse a company of warriors, who'd intercept the daughters and sons of Ched Nasad in the street.

The gray trail rising from the smoking wand in Senni Tonnika's fine-boned hand drew a wavering line in the cantina's muggy air as she took a step backward, too quickly for the mimbrane to scurry away from the sharp point of her boot heel.

The little multilegged monster tried to scurry away, but it could not outrun the shadow of the Q/Calamarain’.

A few managed to unplug and scurry away in time, but hundreds of them weren’.