scramble - use in sentences

Preposition: over

  • boulder: At the base, a scramble over boulders enters a large passage containing a small stream between mud banks.

Object

  • helicopter: Swansea Coastguard immediately requested the launch of the Penarth lifeboat and also scrambled a rescue helicopter.

Adjective modifier

  • unseemly: One sees it in the unseemly scramble to get money from the Department of Homeland Security.
  • almighty: Bugsy then hit the 'keepers legs before an almighty scramble saw Hyde hit the bar three times before the ball was cleared.
  • mad: Well, you could have fooled me or didn't you notice the mad scramble of the last few days?
  • last-minute: Despite all the pressure Swansea failed to snatch an equalizer even after a last-minute goalmouth scramble.
  • desperate: Their last memory of Bosnia is their parents desperate scramble to get them a place on a bus, train or anything heading anywhere.
  • steep: The path now becomes more demanding, a steep scramble up loose rock.

Modifies a noun

  • genome: Others rely on genes that are known to scramble genomes.
  • net: Step through the hoops, crawl under the scramble net, weave in and out of the poles.

Noun used with modifier

  • goalmouth: In the last five minutes Dean Whittaker scored from a rebound in a goalmouth scramble.
  • goal-mouth: After the fifth goal-mouth scramble in 10 minutes I was starting to wonder.
  • mouth: A goal mouth scramble ended up with a powerful drive hitting the net.
  • ridge: Striding Edge on Helvellyn attracts thousands of visitors each year to its narrow ridge scramble.

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