English example sentences with "scuttle"

Crawl forward is done much more agilely - scuttle like a cockroach!
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But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
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The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
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They are now drawing lessons to make sure that rumors and misinformation will never again scuttle a vital health campaign.
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With care, Rodrigo opened the jar, allowing the centipede to scuttle away into the undergrowth.
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There is a concerted effort by the powerful to scuttle all social media sites that people use to organize against them.
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