Sentence examples for scrambled to check from inspiring English sources

The police and bank said that no money was stolen but the branch at Surrey Quays was closed yesterday as customers scrambled to check their accounts.

Aircraft are scrambled to check out a possible infringement; and since the CleanSeaNet system was set up in 2007, about a quarter of the 2,000 potential spills investigated up to 2009 were confirmed as transgressions.

THE Christmas Day fire that killed five people, including three children, in Stamford, Conn., has sent many homeowners scrambling to check their own safety equipment.

Stores on Saturdays and Sundays, in comparison, are expected to be overwhelmed with people scrambling to check off their gift lists in four weekends instead of the five they had last year.

Savvy Republicans scrambled to contain the damage.

As a result of the confusion, employers have scrambled to compile and check paperwork, and a cottage industry of law forums and consulting is emerging.

Then, journalists scramble to fact-check.

London officials scrambled to conduct safety checks on at least 600 other high-rise buildings after the deadly blaze at the 24-story Grenfell Tower.

For the most part, they sat on alert in their hangars at Langley, waiting for the rare call to fire up their jets and scramble, typically to check out a wayward Cessna or a military plane with a malfunctioning transponder.

Maine scrambled to make the play at first, and after Randolph and the trainer Ray Ramirez checked on him, he kept pitching.

Legislatures scrambled to enact laws.