scuttle - use in sentences

Object

  • shake: Are you put off by the irritating scuttle shake common to almost every convertible?
  • fleet: Admiral Von Reuter, the man in charge, fearing the break down of negotiations, made plans to scuttle the fleet.
  • panel: Guards, bonnet top and top scuttle panel are steel as Mike had informed me over the ' phone.

Modifying Another Word

  • back: Others might be able to survive just long enough to scuttle back into the sea.
  • then: So America control ' most of ' the place in the day and then scuttle when night time falls.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • around: Got sorted and started to scuttle around the three remaining boilers.

Noun used with modifier

  • coal: They make rather neat little coal scuttles, or plant pots.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: These creatures would have scuttled around just under the water.
  • out: He ran at me but I jumped out of the way and he scuttled out of the kitchen and under the nearby toilet door.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: It was little more than a shadow, and it scuttled down the darkened hall fast, like a little patch of night.
  • up: And he scuttled up the moonlight floor, Where and owl glided over the shadowy trees.
  • off: To date, 2.9 million copies have scuttled off the UK's shelves.

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