skitter

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: The walls burned to the touch, and as he skittered down a turn, a faint sound reached his ears.

Object

• beat: Manga Bros Darkness reigns in the Manga's world of skittering trip-hop beats, eerie ambient washes and junglist drums.

Preposition: across

• floor: A cockroach considered taking its usual skitter across the floor, but was interrupted.
• table: When you release the pressure, Rider will skitter across the table, toward you.

Modifying Another Word

• away: The stick skittered away from me, like ball bearings poured on to a sheet of steel.
• about: A cast of seven skittered about with great energy, the women looking rather glamorous in chic costumes from Neil Cunningham.
• back: He screeched at the creature ultrasonically, which rotated through 180 degrees and skittered back into the undergrowth making frightened, low pitched rumblings.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: TIP: I always punch the points where I want to drill to stop the bit from skittering off.