Sentence examples for were not scrambling from inspiring English sources

We were not scrambling to try to put something together.

I was pale and dark-haired, serious, sardonic, and it's not very surprising that boys my age were not scrambling to talk to me.

While this was 10 times as much as in the previous auction, the Bank's data showed that banks were not scrambling to pay high sums for the loans provided.

Fighter planes were not scrambled, as my colleague Choe Sang-hun reported, and soldiers stayed in their barracks.

Contrary to the testimony of retired Gen. Larry Arnold, who on 9/11 was the commander of continental defense for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, fighters were not scrambled that morning to meet the threat posed by United 93.

Mr. Chetwynd said Mr. Bush told him, for example, that on the Friday after the attacks, "I was feeling much better about what was going on, I felt we weren't scrambling any more, we were defining the problem".

Wouldn't the morning before school be a lot less stressful if you weren't scrambling to finish your work?

"They are not scrambling for jobs".

"We're writing these fact-checks in advance so that we're not scrambling," Ms. Suh said.

Shovel-ready isn't as important as it was in early 2009 because we're not scrambling to stanch economic bleeding.

"We're not scrambling, we've been down before, we were down in last years finals," Bryant said.