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Use scoot in a sentence

Definition of scoot:

  • (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily

Sentence Examples:

He whooped, as he scooted for first.

Whooped Hans, as he scooted for first.

Camp's overrun now with just such scoots.

Up this we scooted, hard as we could pelt.

Martha scooted out from under her husbands kneading hands.

Let Irene scoot off and mop her eyes at home.

Scooting into a city with a swagger to their dust-caked wheels.

The racket stopped as Diamond scooted down the slippery surface.

The tangle came untied, and the little priest scooted in.

And the children hastily scooted, leaving a milky track behind.

It scooted into the cow's stall and hid beneath the manger.

Lanced him as he went scooting by the kayak full speed.

Little green lizards scooted underfoot and vines scratched at their ankles.

"Why," cried Jack, aghast, "he'd get on his horse and scoot."

I was in blue funk, sir, and scooted, with celerity and splash.

Frosty scooted beneath the stove and again Andy's smile threatened to blossom.

Hitch on to the trucks and scoot for the woods with them.

And Frederick shot, scooting the puck across the ice on a perfect pass.

"By 'scooting' do you mean that you are going to walk across that moor again?"

And then, reared over on one side and scooting along before the wind, a sailboat.

The boy scooted off with his empty cherry pail as the girls approached.

Wouldn't it be fine to put an ocean steamer on skates and see it scoot over?

The startled Cat screamed, and wrenched violently at the snare as he scooted skyward.

And I just had a glimpse of a big moose scooting off through the brush.

The boy squinted once at the visitor, and scooted, the red head of him foremost.

Their arms were laden with bundles and a small collie scooted ahead in front of them.

He said as he gave one of the penny dolls a scoot down the shiny tin gutter.

You remember how she scooted through the studio this afternoon with a werewolf after her?

He scooted away with the Buzzer working overtime and soon was cloud- hopping about a Mile overhead.

The old man was pottering about the scoot, trying to recover his traps and gun.

She had started gallantly, scooting along the level road that flies straight west of Fargo.

Just beckon one mite of an inch and a life goes scooting up to heaven or down to hell.

"He said we had better get back to our dormitory as quickly as we could, so we scooted."

Whether reading about twenty-five-cent hamburgers or godly peaks, I could scoot easily between pictures and words.

Cried Len, scooting up with his milk-stool and pail and looking like David skirmishing before Goliath.

An instant later Small was scooting homeward again as fast as his legs would carry him.

Gabriele scooted carefully to the other side of the room where the bookshelf went over the window.

As we sailed I observed shoals of herring breaking water, or, as the fishermen word it, "scooting."

She scooted; and I went in and hauled out Gran'pa who was behaving like a sulky schoolboy.

"Henry Burns, old chap, get hold of that canoe and let's scoot," exclaimed his companion, laughing.

His own machine was still scooting downward, its speed even greater than that of the broken flier.

With blank faces she and Val would rush from the house and scoot after the scurrying rabbits.

Under the fence you scoot, to race, madly whooping, up the wooded slope, fearful lest you are missing something.

I gunned our Cad Super, joyfully, defiantly, and scooted up over the assigned traffic stream at a thousand per.

Somehow or other, the having that train scooting by day in and day out unsettles the young fellows.

With the lightest effort of imagination I can see myself and other tireless atoms scooting across reaches of sunlight.

Pop turned, tiptoed to the back screen door, opened it quietly, while Poetry and I scooted to the tent.

"Better scoot, Youngster," Tug advised, with a grin that was meant kindly, but made Jim madder than ever.

Then the rebels scooted down that way to repulse the new attack, and I took a chance and landed.

So, now that that matter is all settled, we will proceed to heave the anchor and scoot for home.

He had no intention of having his dignity compromised by shoes that might treacherously scoot out from under him.

Muttered the inventor, as he threw over a lever and sent the Eagle scooting in a breathless sweep toward the earth.

While these are waiting for water she scoots along out of the tide and makes a good passage in a shoal sea.

Meanwhile, she thought, scooting her chair back from her desk, she had a vague excuse to prowl the upper floors.

I guess I knew how Skinny felt when he scooted off, because after camp-fire I felt just that same way myself.

Their light fast mobile units scoot right on past the heavily fortified centers and capture small positions in the rear.

Thor greeted him with an immediate growl of warning, and the badger scooted back up the trail in fear of his life.

I lifted up the board he had been lying on and there were all worms under it and slugs that went scooting around.

Then he made up his mind and scooted off along the shore till he got to a clump of little trees and disappeared.

He turned and scooted into the citadel as fast as his size would let him, and that was faster than you would expect.

He was scooting along through the damp air, flashing his light at the rate of about thirty-six times a minute, when a heavy body bumped into him and knocked him head over heels upon the grass-carpeted ground.

In the early morning, as seen from the ship's deck, they scoot above the rippling waves in schools of a hundred and more, so compact as to cast fleeting shadows over the blue enameled surface of the waters.

A dozen of the group might have accepted it as meant for him, but, if so, he must have been equally puzzled with the author of the signal, who a minute later was scooting through the air and steadily rising.

I have asked the Commandant again (either this evening or earlier) so that there may be no possible doubt about it: "If we do have to scoot from Ghent in a hurry I shall have nothing but my wits to trust to?"

I gave a yell, then turned over on my back, with my hands clasped behind my head to protect it from the shock, and the next minute I were scooting down the river for the sea, with that wall howling behind me like a thousand thunders.

As a wave rolled up, combed over and broke, the white foam would chase them in, and as they ran before it, if it came on too fast, they would pick themselves up, open their wings till the cinnamon showed, and scoot in like excited children.

We had to turn the Sally round into the wind and lower her sails, and stayed like that for nearly an hour, all the time looking to see whether any junks were coming after us, and standing by to scoot off again if they did.