as in to scurry
to move quickly and lightly along a surface
Dry leaves skittered over the sidewalk. Mice skittered across the floor.
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Recent Examples of skitter
Several small, unsecured items fell and skittered across the cabin floor.
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Heather Steinberger, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Arthropleura lived between 290 million and 346 million years ago, skittering around the Earth’s tropical equator alongside other massive arthropods like the two-foot-long scorpion Pulmonoscorpius.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
Any horror novel worth its salt should make the heart race and the spine tingle, as if a great, hairy spider was skittering along each vertebrae.
—Jordan Kopy, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Rain and Navarro rush in to save them, just in time to notice that a lot of skittering creatures are running, jumping, and trying to knock up their new visitors.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
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Heather Steinberger, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Arthropleura lived between 290 million and 346 million years ago, skittering around the Earth’s tropical equator alongside other massive arthropods like the two-foot-long scorpion Pulmonoscorpius.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
Any horror novel worth its salt should make the heart race and the spine tingle, as if a great, hairy spider was skittering along each vertebrae.
—Jordan Kopy, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Rain and Navarro rush in to save them, just in time to notice that a lot of skittering creatures are running, jumping, and trying to knock up their new visitors.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skitter
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The Chiefs escaped Arrowhead Stadium with a 32-29 win over Buffalo in the championship nightcap in a tense, riveting affair that had social media scurrying for the latest examples of an NFL conspiracy to keep Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift in the public eye.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The cost of that is mutating into a walking corpse, the sight of which is enough to send people scurrying.—
Jason Fields,
Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2024
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Szoboszlai darted towards the near post to receive Mac Allister’s low delivery and swept the ball towards Salah close to the penalty spot.—
James Pearce,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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One sheep was on a mission and darted toward the guardian dogs' puppy.—
Liz O'Connell,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Nonstop entertainment with live music and dancing all day long in our Biergarten and Clubhouse.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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And even just little things like that — a boy asked her to dance.—
Esme Mazzeo,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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With a plot that flits between past and present, The Notebook follows Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah’s (Ryan Gosling) love affair as told by Noah’s older self (James Garner) at a nursing home to his wife (the late, great Gena Rowlands) suffering from Alzheimer’s.—
Sezin Devi Koehler,
EW.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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The other excellent actors flit in and out as nonsensical characters: Britton plays Valerie Whitesell, Mullen's former chief of staff and lover (an insult to her, to be honest; there is a 24-year age difference between the actors).—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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Or catch a ferry to Lokrum Island—a 72-hectare nature reserve home to towering pine forests, a medieval Benedictine monastery (established in the 11th century), and botanical gardens where flirty peacocks flutter their feathers.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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His long-distance shot skimmed off the stick of Niko Mikkola and fluttered past Juuse Saros.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Skitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skitter. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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