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Definition of "scurried" [scurried]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of scurry. (verb)

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Use "scurried" in a sentence
  • "It's been like a runaway train,'' says Worcester's Dom, whose band of the same name scurried around Austin for nine gigs in four days."
  • "I sat for one moment on the Termination Rock, and then followed my guide back to my companions, when together we once more "scurried" into day."
  • "The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed."