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The phrase "scuffle of feet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the sound of multiple people walking quickly and clumsily in a disorderly and confused manner. For example: "We heard a scuffle of feet ahead of us in the hallway as the school children rushed to their classes."
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As I lean over to inhale the intoxicating orange blossom scent of a flowering Pittosporum tobira, I hear the scuffle of clawed feet through the leaf litter and glance down just in time to see a lithe, greyish-brown, female streak down a dry gully.
There was no singing, no shouting just the sound of scuffling feet.
In his astonishing memoir, "Walking with the Wind," Lewis remembers Bloody Sunday in Selma, the disorienting quiet, the discipline of the marchers, the sobriety, "almost like a funeral procession": There was no singing, no shouting — just the sound of scuffling feet.
Evoking the sound of "the scuffling of strange new feet in laboratory basements" invites us to see the researchers as monster-creating Dr. Frankensteins.
In the former case people scuffle their feet, leave their seats and walk about, and sometimes join spontaneously in rhythmic behaviour, such as foot stamping.
He speaks reverently to his superiors, not scuffling his feet or standing on one leg, and he is mild and polite with those below him.
In January 1987, Ice was stabbed five times during a scuffle outside of City Lights.
During a scuffle, one of his aides and a protester were knocked to the ground.
Millions of people died in a four-year scuffle over slivers of territory.
With a little energy shown during a minor scuffle in front of the benches.
Where else can you scuffle your Tony Lamas a few feet from the man who sang "Okie From Muskogee"?
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