Sentence examples for scrambled about from inspiring English sources

Several of them scrambled about on a rocky incline along the creek.

RAF planes have been scrambled about once a month recently to escort Russian warplanes away from UK airspace, although the number of times it happened last year – eight – is not particularly high in a historical context.

This innovation would reward conscious effort, in other words — grim, unflagging exertion, and time, lots of time, and driving, miles and miles of it, as desperate kids and parents scrambled about like Joseph K., hoping to survive the process that they woke to find themselves enmeshed in one fine morning, all to prevent a dire verdict from an unseen bureaucrat.

This innovation would reward conscious effort, in other words grim, unflagging exertion, and time, lots of time, and driving, miles and miles of it, as desperate kids and parents scrambled about like Joseph K., hoping to survive the process that they woke to find themselves enmeshed in one fine morning, all to prevent a dire verdict from an unseen bureaucrat.

Mr. Castaing-Taylor recalled the first time he watched the footage from cameras that had been affixed to the fishermen's helmets as they scrambled about the slippery deck.

Public Works employees scrambled about River Park, collecting anything that might wash away — oil-drum ashcans, the sign reminding people to set their parking brakes on the boat ramp, the bases on the baseball field.

We're a third of the way into the season, which has meant that certain teams have had a chance to find their form, then lose it again, then scramble about crying "My form!

They were all scrambling about.

Mike Ridley was his usual hard-working self, scrambling about.

But no one could accuse them of panicking, or of scrambling about incoherently.

One almost expects to see mechanics with wrenches and coveralls scrambling about.