Sentence examples for scrambled to pull from inspiring English sources

Then the telecast scrambled to pull together the genres and generations — sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in collision.

Yara and I scrambled to pull together the video diaries we had been collecting since November.

A year ago, governments around the world scrambled to pull their biggest banks from the brink of collapse.

In Japan, investors scrambled to pull savings out of money market funds that held Enron bonds, and the Bank of Japan took steps to assure there were enough reserves in the banking system to avoid a cash squeeze.

The sea was mild, with five-foot swells rocking us just enough to make walking a conscious effort, and when Norman Garnett, the Illusion's 61-year-old English captain, gave the order, we scrambled to pull, feed, winch and cleat a series of ropes that unfurled our three sails, which caught and tightened in the wind.

We scrambled to pull together what we thought was a coherent flow.

I scramble to pull on flippers and a mask, and plop into the water feet first.

Francisco ran, pushing his girlfriend ahead and scrambling to pull open the zipper of his backpack.

May's particularly fickle weather can leave even the most creative fashion assistant scrambling to pull herself together in the morning.

Often, it shows politicians scrambling to pull together various regions or ideological wings of a party, like Franklin D. Roosevelt paired with the conservative Texan John Nance Garner, the speaker of the House, in 1932.

Less than a year ago, our daughter graduated from Harvard after this middle-class family willingly spent four years scrambling to pull together the money for tuition, room and board, books, airline tickets and so on.