Sentence examples for scarper from inspiring English sources
verb
To run away; to flee; to escape.
It is unlikely that your betrothed will scarper on horseback, as Julia Roberts did in "Runaway Bride", and most insurers wouldn't cover that anyway.
Partners may sit tight for one bad year, but after another some will scarper with their clients.
As huge rain-drops begin to spatter the ground, people scarper for cover.
Most hackers like to pinch valuable data discreetly and then scarper before being spotted.
And then you scarper home as fast as you can.
Medved means bear in Russian and the worst way to respond to a bear is to display overt weakness or to scarper in different directions.
The surface is a jumble of craters, plains and immense, cliff-like scarps that can be hundreds of kilometres long.
Astrogeologists suspect these scarps may be analogous to the wrinkles on a raisin, having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.In this section Signalling dissent Painted out Mercury rising One degree over ReprintsIndeed, the more that is learnt about Mercury, the more intriguing it becomes.
Sheer scarps to the east and south drop 2,500 feet (750 metres) to the surrounding plains, and the western wall (4,000 feet [1,200 metres]) bounds part of the Shire rift valley.
In the western part of the Paris Basin, scarps in the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of Normandy are not prominent.
The coastal escarpments of the Gulf of Aden are formed by rift faults that converge toward the southwest to continue into Africa as the boundary scarps of the Eastern, or Great, Rift Valley, which forms part of the East African Rift System.
