scudded

past tense of scud

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scudded
Verb
  • Bats were flipped, benches cleared, Toronto’s manager was ejected and throws skittered around PNC Park.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Rumors of a Satanic curse on the event skittered around the Haight, so early on the morning of the 14th, Ginsberg, Snyder, and Alan Watts conducted a pradakshina, a Buddhist purification rite.
    Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Two plays later, on the first play of the second quarter, Smith scampered around left end and broke several tackles on his way to a 35-yard score.
    Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • After unleashing two monster stiff arms on defenders to break free, Canto-Osorio scampered along the left sideline and tried to beat the last defender to the pylon.
    Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the tall-grass prairies that once spread out across pre-settlement Indiana, tiny ground squirrels scurried through the wildflowers, grasses and shrubs.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Brett Ryan, aided by Robbie Carter’s young daughter, scurried to place markers at the sites of the longest throws, before chucking the corpses back to the starting line.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Plans for a 2015 tour were scuttled after Davies was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The game has been his passion since his earliest days, passed down by his father whose own dreams of playing were scuttled by an injury.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His eyes darted around, finding nowhere to rest.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Some attendees darted to a nearby building and ran through a water fountain to escape.
    Rachel Wolf , Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Aronofsky has, since the grittiness of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, flitted with alacrity from genre to genre, trying his hand at biblical epics (Noah) and claustrophobic dramas (The Whale).
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nine flies flitted about the place, three of which flew around utensils in kitchen storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Their tops and Tate’s hair fluttered in the breeze of a wind machine absurdly cranked up to Stage 4 hurricane levels.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Without appearing to look, Rogers flicked the ball round the corner, straight into the path of Madueke running in behind, cutting inwards from the right.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Aniston’s new haircut incorporates more length and less volume, features a sleek root base, and focuses on the feathery, flicked ends of the original cut.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Scudded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scudded. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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