scramble

Object

• egg: Keep warm, give light diet; scrambled egg or chicken.
• helicopter: Swansea Coastguard immediately requested the launch of the Penarth lifeboat and also scrambled a rescue helicopter.

Preposition: over

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

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.

Preposition: along

• ridge: Throwing in a bit of scrambling along the ridge afterward is well worthwhile.

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.

Infinitive complement

• intercept: It is said, however, that fighters were scrambled to intercept it.

Particle object:

• slope: From there scrambling up the slopes allows access to the monastic remains.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• across: Forssell rose well at the far post but his header was inches off target with Andersen scrambling across.
• around: I scrambled around to the other side of the island which faces the ever-present Mull.