Sentence examples for scrambling to pull from inspiring English sources

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.

For now, Dr. Tamburri and his colleagues are scrambling to pull together the best technologies possible in time to meet the new regulations for the approximately 90,000 annual big cargo ship visits that unload nearly 200 million tons of ballast in United States waters each year.

At one moment company leaders are basking in success, and at the next they're scrambling to pull resumes together, leaving scorched earth behind and looking for different (and hopefully greener) pastures.

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

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

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.