Sentences with phrase «scurries away»

If a predator tries to attack from behind, the tail detaches and keeps wiggling while the skink scurries away, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

If your cavy scurries away, don't feel discouraged!

The more responsible characters treat him like a roach: when he pitches a story about the burgeoning crisis to an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, she brushes him off, and when he sticks a digital recorder in Dr. Sussman's face, the scientist scurries away.

Wealthy women aren't looking for a meek man who scurries away from the spotlight.

Knowing he was in some trouble, Armero scurries away holding onto himself, to try and cause as little embarrassment as possible.

CLEVELAND — Passengers on a Southwest Airlines plane first heard a loud pop and then scurried away when they saw a jagged crack in a window that forced the jet to land in Cleveland on Wednesday.

I made it for an office party and had to scurry it away after I took a bite because it was too embarrassing to let other people try it.

Or perhaps you've seen the celebrities carrying their babies, safely scurrying away from the Paparazzi.

Some even began to run over the researchers» shoes instead of scurrying away.

I know many Western but also Russian and Ukrainian guys scurry away when there are talks of Valentine's Day.

What other than genetic heredity could account for our eternal hunger to see humans scurrying away from fast - approaching danger?

On the eve of his greatest public failure, David meets Elise (Emily Blunt), a spirited dancer who sparks immediate chemistry with the fallen man, only to scurry away after making a profound impression.

There's nothing more satisfying than collecting a huge arsenal of power - ups that make your bomb blasts fill the screen as all of your opponents scurry away to safety.

Yet, rather than rage at or scurry away from the beast, to hand out persimmons and give cuddles is what this film desires.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

When we've taught students in ways that enable them to score high on accountability tests, but in the process have made them scurry away from math or feel repelled by reading, have we educated those students properly?

The 5 - litre V8 delivers little below 3000rpm, when turbocharged rivals would have long picked up their skirts and scurried away.

An all - new anything runs the risk of being too different and sending customers scurrying away, or too much the same and not attracting anyone's notice.

Some people seem eager to get back to the grand old world of limited - run printouts stapled together and scurrying away on a breeze.

We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is.»

Most scammers either keep on scamming or scurry away into the corner only to return under a different name, but a few have been doing what they can to muddy the water.

Scurry away into the corner, or buy a small company in New York and use its technology to build a Superkindle, with a multitouch color screen and built - in applications?

It's a real shame when a book gets a DA «Recommends,» and agency pricing sends would - be purchasers scurrying away (at least I'm assuming it's Agency pricing at work), and thus, both the author and publisher have lost out on sales.

He gets nervous when she picks up the remote control, and will scurry away with his tail between his legs.

When the hamster doesn't scurry away at the sight of you, try offering it a special treat from your fingers.

A fifth cat eluded capture two separate times, walking up close to the trap at one point before scurrying away.

To do this, blow gently on your dog's stomach or brush hair backward in a few places to see if any small specks scurry away or if ticks are clinging to the skin.

When it is safe, they will scurry away.

The light blue water is clear enough for one to see the aquatic life scurry away as you reach towards them.

Or we walked along rock ledges that lined the shore, occasionally spooking big, scarlet - red crabs that went clicking across the rocks as they scurried away.

And while the amount of on - screen action can grow chaotic at times, as long as you scurry away from the waterjets of foes and watch your back, it's fairly easy to become a water warrior.

Super Metroid really upped the vague horror elements of the Metroid franchise, between the slaughtering of the scientists in the space station, the corpse right before battling Kraid with little parasites feeding on it that scurry away when Samus gets near, and the frozen aliens in Tourain with their life force sucked dry that disintegrate into dust when they're touched.

Few things in gaming are more satisfying that seeing Gaffgarion turn against you only to scurry away to the back lines of the enemy formation, if he even gets that far.

What?!?!?! You want me to follow that furry thing that just popped out of the ground and scurried away from me?

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At best, one might rush through them, merely as a shortcut, trying to avoid the pungent smell of waste, while turning a blind eye to rats scurrying away.

Eventually the entire AGW house of cards will collapse and the rats will scurry away (or «move on» in hockey team parlance), but not until it has run it's course.

It wasn't Mr. Hadfield who tucked - tail and scurried away.

You can continuously fire on the beast from afar, stopping only when you need to dodge attacks, scurry away, and repeat.

If you've got a hobbit fanatic in your home then this little door is the perfect spot to scurry away to Hobbiton.

Mums scurry them away to the appropriate liquor cupboards, but be warned, siblings will steal them.

Not exact matches

Rats scurry underground, and pigeons fly away.

But people throughout the affected area had to wear protective masks, and farmers and rescue workers scurried to herd thousands of sheep and other livestock away from the area of ash fall, amid fears of the deleterious effects of fluorine or other toxic elements in the ash.

For young dogs, you're the security blanket and they'll perceive this as their safety is walking away and they'll almost always scurry to catch up to you.

And yet while combat may not be frequent, with it not being uncommon for there to be only two or three fights across a whole game, when it does occur it's very important because pushing someone away from the factory or sending their workers scurrying home can really damage their plans.

The older lad's friends pulled him away and the younger kids scurried off to lick their wounds.

To keep animals away, carefully pick plants they're not interested in or use sprays that send them scurrying yet don't hurt the edibles, says landscape architect Clara C. Batchelor, principal of CBA Landscape Architects in Somerville, Mass..

This week I'm scurrying about freshening up my family room a little (now that my Christmas decor is all put away) because I'm SO ready to see a little bit of spring and sunshine at my house!

After the initial shock went away, and we were both no longer paralyzed in fear, it scurried down the stairs and I quickly pushed the door back open and stepped inside the house.