scudding

[ UK /skˈʌdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)
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How To Use scudding In A Sentence

  • Her opponent would send the ball scudding across the net.
  • We had been very proud of our fleet "clippers" that were scudding about to different ports. A Little Girl of Long Ago
  • As we battled against the wind, the scudding clouds suddenly parted to reveal a dazzling sunlit glimpse of the cone, unbelievably close, in staggering golden 3D.
  • Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator.
  • High puffy clouds were scudding fast across the deep blue sky. Choker
  • Holly tried offering him the tiger again, but this time he knocked it out of her hand and sent it scudding across the tile. A Light at Winter’s End
  • It was a windy day, and small white clouds were scudding across the blue sky.
  • Sanctuary's tall spires reached elegantly for the scudding clouds, shadowing the Gateway and offering him one last moment of anonymity. TREASON KEEP
  • Late yesterday afternoon I noticed that a few of the scudding-by clouds were off-colour, a bit brown.
  • Beneath the skylarks and the scudding clouds, no more than a conversation between people and chalk grass, this was a war memorial I could understand.
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