How To Use Scuttle In A Sentence

Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.
I try to hug him, but he just drops to the floor and scuttles away, slamming the door shut again with his feet.
The whole place had a damp and evil smell, and as I moved my torch a rat scuttled across the floor.
The officers of the xebecs knew they couldn't outmaneuver or outrun the British so they decided to scuttle their craft, toss their armament overboard and escape on foot to the north.

Behind one of the cameras a lizard scuttles up the wall and disappears down the other side.
Micky Conlan would roll the ball in front, then run, pick it up, baulk an imaginary opponent, run close to the boundary, kick the goal then scuttle back, laughing.
Ahead, a line of massive, two-tailed scorpions scuttled through the eastern gate and swarmed among fallen hunks of ceiling. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Lizards with bright blue tails scuttled out of our way, taking cover among the thorn bushes and cactus that were the only greenery.
The scuttlebutt I hear is that a lot of the leading Illinois Democrats (i.e. the crooked Blue Dog ones who are all going to end up indicted anyway as long as Pat Fitzgerald doesn't run out of time) want Hillary and the only reason Obama has as strong a base as he does in his home state is because of Penny Pritzker's bullheadedness in getting him networked and funded. Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill
He watched a lizard scuttle furtively along the join between wall and ceiling, and disappear into a crevice.
She lay with him one afternoon, when a scrap of sunlight spearing through a chink in the scuttle's deadlight was scribing an oval shape on the opposite bulkhead, and she mentally added up the number of rooms in her Lincolnshire house. Sharpe's Trafalgar
Then, he would return the bowl and scuttle back to his lair.
This is because fear of small creatures that scuttle about on four or more legs is a much more ancient, primordial fear, going straight back to caveman days.
One of the aliens scuttled forward and fiddled with one of its gadgets, finally producing an audible series of grunts, whistles, and squeaks which to Jerome's untutored ears sounded exactly like the sounds of dolphins. A Simple Misunderstanding
Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
Gwyneth strode to the head of the stairs and with a smug smile on her lips gazed down upon them as Maida scuttled behind her daughter's skirts. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
If he has ever seen the word scuttle it has been in the Jingo Press, where the "policy of scuttle" is used whenever we give up something to a small Power like Liberals, instead of giving up everything to a great Power, like Imperialists. Tremendous Trifles
Yet the 61-year-old Diller insists there was never anything to the scuttlebutt.
As the Grafton was scuttled, Mr Kester - who eventually held the rank of sub lieutenant - was transferred to the destroyer Ivanhoe and ended up in Dover.
The youths scuttled down the drive and spilled on to the pavement, where they looked suddenly confused and directionless. PROSPECT HILL
Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
When road conditions became worse, juddering was transmitted through the steering column and scuttle shake, that scourge of open-tops, occurred.
My absolute dream has always been to live and work in the same space - work downstairs then scuttle upstairs to a nest in the rafters.
Like most X-Box scuttlebutt, the various elements of the leaked spec. are tantalisingly plausible - bloody obvious, if you think about it, possibly too obvious - but too vague to draw any real conclusions.
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
Such an undertaking would not be too much of a surprise: billionaire Madeleine Schickedanz' steady accruement of the company's stock prompted scuttlebutt that she was preparing to delist Germany's biggest department store chain and divide it up--although Chief Executive ThomasMiddelhoffThomas Middelhoff told the company's annual general meeting last May that such a scenario was not in the cards. Schickedanz Ready To Delist KarstadtQuelle?
In a single act of cowardice and betrayal, if not treason, the US congress has 'scuttled' the Articles of Impeachment drawn up and carefully researched by Dennis Kucinich. Liberty Betrayed
Certain scuttlebutt avows that the girls actually do not participate in the makings of many of these records.
The most phlegmatic, untroubled rebuilder of wobbling innings in the world today, the 35-year-old left hander shrugged off every ball that gloved him and every one that scuttled.
A little lizard scuttled across the path.
The fleet was to surrender, but it was scuttled before it reached the naval base at Scapa Flow.
The document listed coal scuttles, pokers, grates, and fenders, but only one set of andirons.
They were booed off by their own fans and scuttled away from the Bridge as fast as they could. The Sun
On the other, the book makes no concession to ways in which authorial intent might be shaped or scuttled by external factors.
They needed aid in tying on armour- saucepan and coal-scuttle helmets, bolsters for necks, blanket and hearthrug padding, dish-cover shields. Times, Sunday Times
The nurse eventually scuttles happily out of the curtains and disappears.
For something to do, I scuttled out into the hall to collect the mail from the battered tin box in the lobby. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A hedgehog scuttles out of the shrubs, it clicks across the road and I staccato-step behind it.
How, for instance, could a Frenchman suppose that a coalbox would be called a "scuttle"? Tremendous Trifles
Finally, she heard the sound of voices in the grand foyer and scuttled over to the door of the antechamber.
The man he sits on scuttles away, so timid to be sat on first thing in the morning.
(2002-06) had "scuttled" the probe and had destroyed evidence, United News of Bangladesh (UNB) news agency reported. The Times of India
collogue," as they expressed it; but also the little gossoons in their ragged trousers and bare feet, and the girleens, with their curly hair, and roguish dark-blue eyes, to scuttle in also. Light O' the Morning
And I scuttled out wishing the floor would open up.
The gooseneck vents were covered and heavy deadlights were swung across the scuttles and clipped down along the entire ship's sides. LET NOT THE DEEP
Spencer scuttled away from Young to shoot wide when he should have scored.sentence dictionary
Walker took off to see if he could find out the latest scuttlebutt, leaving Emmert alone.
The puntillero, 'tacker' had scuttled out with his short, sharp razor-sharp knife to cut the bull's spinal chord, the coup de grace, but as he begins his surgical insertion, the cut awakens the bull, and he rises howling and scrambling to his feet, the matador falls back, and the peones again appear. There is no such thing as a bullfight
Grace lay beside him, gazing up at the deck, listening to the hiss of rain falling on the deadlight of the cabin's scuttle. Sharpe's Trafalgar
Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga. The Thorn Birds
Musicians scuttled between a cattle pen at the front of the stalls and the unseen stage rear. Times, Sunday Times
They were booed off by their own fans and scuttled away from the Bridge as fast as they could. The Sun
As such, she doesn't get out much, since her few attempts at dating are scuttled by the conspicuous presence of her bodyguards.
But if it scuttled down into the depths of my body no power could prevent my violent convulsion. SKORPION'S DEATH
Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
The incident threatens to scuttle the peace process.
When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.
Walk more, eat less and include dairy products to help burn fat is the scuttlebutt of late.
Out it came, and scuttled behind the wardrobe. The Sun
Day and night gophers and rabbits hop through several concentric fences onto the lawn and scuttle out again.
Okay, so, the scuttlebutt is writers should stay in touch with their readers. April 2007
He scuttled after him, ignoring the switching cuts of the blades and the thistly ground. In Other Worlds
A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
A little lizard scuttled across the path.
Too often the music's lyricism is scuttled by his bumpy legato, its tremendous strength is held in check, and the soundstage turns powerful phrases into key-pounding exercises.
As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
Something scuttled out of the torch beam, hopping across the ceiling lathes into the shadows.
He charged that the administration was trying to scuttle the deal.
So the latest scuttlebutt is that Google and Dell are getting together and bashing out the first Android phone. Google, Dell and the gPhone : #comments
The Babysitters Club would have been a first-rate film had they simply scuttled the stupid story points and let the characters interact and speak to each other.
So, she hid her femininity behind demureness, read her poems with eyes downcast and scuttled back to the safe haven of domesticity.
As far as why the junta-connected were so interested in adopting children, the scuttlebutt is that the military culture of 1970s Argentina involved lots of visits to prostitutes. Boing Boing
Next he remembered the old woman of the chaparral, pressing grapes in her mountain clearing; and Ferguson, the little man who had scuttled into the road like a rabbit, the one-time managing editor of a great newspaper, who was content to live in the chaparral along with his spring of mountain water and his hand-reared and manicured fruit trees. Chapter XXII
There is pronounced scuttle shake over potholes too, but this kind of critique really misses the point.
Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior. A percentage game at PMQs
The scrubwoman dropped Nefret's hand and scuttled past them, head bowed. LORD OF THE SILENT
She nods slowly and scuttles away, going from sitting next to me to between Brendon and a meditating Seleth, the four of us nestled in a shady corner.
There was no one in sight, but he heard a fiddle and what sounded like an accordion, and what he'd thought was just an anchor light was also the gleam of light from the scuttles of a low, midships deckhouse.
It scuttles over and mewls softly, nuzzling its fallen bedfellow.
Half a scuttle of coal 2-3 times/day is required to keep the fire burning.
No scuttle shake or rattles were detected, a good sign that the aluminium chassis is all that its cracked up to be.
The scuttlebutt I hear is that Enron was long to the same extent that other energy suppliers and wholesale traders were long.
But if they scuttle Mr Obama's nominee, he will simply name another.
I scuttle over to where she is sitting and take a swig from the beer can she's been clutching. Poor Devil
Wagtails and sandpipers squeak and dart amongst the thick glossy hyacinth leaves, and at the muddy edges, bluethroats scuttle this way and that like mice.
Cash-strapped and huddling under brollies, families scuttled into cinemas. Times, Sunday Times
A crab scuttled away under a rock as we passed.
There's been some scuttlebutt that the Enterprise is going to be involved in something pretty big, but that's all it is.
It is disappointing to see the idea scuttled now when we need it more than ever. gerrymandering is to blame for the nation's woes. Calitics - Front Page
He conjured a wonderful lob that hit the green but scuttled through to the fringe beyond, some 20 feet from the hole. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he constantly scuttles any optimism that the nightmare is possibly manageable.
Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses. Fiancée
This is fodder for schoolyard scuttlebutt, a ‘guaranteed to be repeated until you're sick of it’ situation that will definitely work your last nerve.
Now listen to me, missy, you scuttle back into your little kitchen right now and get me another breakfast.
Anyway, now I have to wear shoes in the house, because I've already impaled my feet on tiny cutlasses, slipped on miniature cannon balls and "scuttled" a couple of galleons by not watching out where I was walking. Archive 2007-12-01
I was getting scuttlebutt that nobody really cared about anymore.
She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips. We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
It scuttled under the covers of our bed as we were turning in. The Sun
Flannigan helped the captain scuttle the vessel by setting explosive charges. Heroes or Villains?
This film's release to DVD is unwarranted, and it should be scuttled and returned to the hidden film vault beneath the Nevada salt mines.
As the wind picked up, the tent poles began to creak and the drizzle degenerated into a downpour, the young Englishman scuttled off into the clubhouse hoping that doom-laden forecasts would work in his favour.
He was an outspoken critic of the show when it began, mostly because it scuttled his own plans for a Galactica reboot that would pick up where the 1978 version left off.
He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses. Fiancée
The day in mid-January when the sun peeps over the horizon for the first time is greeted with such clamorous celebrations that it's a wonder it doesn't scuttle back behind the hills in fright.
There's some scuttlebutt that she took out the whole camp.
It was curious how the humour of calling a scuttle Love and Mr Lewisham
Hooded mergansers scuttled away as the Mackenzie type drift boat floated downstream.
It scuttled under the covers of our bed as we were turning in. The Sun
Llamas, chickens, goats, and other farm animals stampeded in all directions while their owners scuttled to catch their spooked livestock.
Our State and Federal Governments, intimidated by the medical fraternity's recent show of muscle, have scuttled new liability legislation through their parliaments post-haste.
Some creature that looked like a feathered lizard, its coxcomb yellow and black, scuttled into view, and out again. COLDHEART CANYON
(HuffPo keeps foolishly running a headline about how Republicans are denying that she might be scuttled, which is kind of like the old saw about somebody denying that he hits his wife.) Hollywood Elsewhere
The 94-year-old Austrian who has lived in Osogbo for 58 years and has become a high priestess of Osun was glad to see the natives scuttle back to their original deity. Archive 2008-09-01
After barely a verse, a Brazilian news crew scuttles over, a gaggle of photographers in tow.
There is little doubt that his Nazi ties scuttled his career while he was alive and sullied his reputation after his death.
The festivities are due to continue on Saturday as the town celebrates its Scuttlebrook Wake.
Now there is barely a hint of scuttle shake, and the odd shimmy and wobble you do still sense is no worse than in many saloons.
Scuttle: Right, as if you two didn't know, uh ?
She glanced around the room, jumped at the sound of leaves skittering on the tiles, so much like the chitinous scuttle of cockroaches. When Rose Wakes
Found not far from Portobelo, where the Vizcaina reportedly was scuttled, the ship had been stripped of its rigging. Columbus Mystery Ship
The scuttlebutt is that the RNC might step in a help pay off those debts. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Steele and Palin Deserve each Other
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, one of the few Arab nations with diplomatic ties with Israel, said Monday that Mr. Netanyahu's words "scuttled" chances to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Arabs Pan Israel's Overture
It was curious how the humour of calling a scuttle "kettle" had evaporated. Love and Mr. Lewisham
Lockwood's investigation, in the 1990s, of a biocontrol for a crop-destroying grasshopper revealed that it also harmed beneficial grasshoppers, and the project was scuttled.
He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
Captain Doane shouted to one of the sailors who had just emerged from the forecastle scuttle, sea - bag in hand, and over whom the fore-topmast was swaying giddily. CHAPTER XV
And he galloped on, as cheery as a boy, shouting at the rabbits as they scuttled from under his feet, and laughing at the dottrel as they postured and anticked on the mole-hills. Hereward, the Last of the English
The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman.
A little lizard scuttled across the path.
The raid succeeded in as much as two ships were successfully scuttled. Times, Sunday Times
Crickets chirred, something larger scuttled through the dead carpet of leaves, something else creaked softly, perhaps a frog. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.1 of 31.1
The S2000 has no scuttle shake, that bane of soft tops, because it uses what Honda calls an X-bone frame.
Such details fall into the category of "scuttlebutt" - which is another term for "urban legend". Mudville Gazette
They refuse to give me firm data, but the scuttlebutt is that AT&T is doing likewise. Comcast’s Blurry High Definition Picture - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
But I also have to face the facts: sometimes a good concept can be hopelessly scuttled by budgetary limitations.
He patted me quickly on the back then scuttled off down the far end of the cat walk.
One night in Pescara, we got the scuttlebutt from a pharmacist.
As I read on the couch, something scuttles across the floor and I look up from the pages.
Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection. The White Company
When the wash receded they followed it with an incredibly rapid twinkling of little legs; and when again the wave rushed, shoreward, _scuttle, scuttle, scuttle_ went they, keeping always just at the edge of the water. The Gray Dawn
The window-dressers tut, relinquish their sparkling trolley, turn on their heels and scuttle back to safety.
As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
Wood Island could be anywhere in America, and it's this lack of a concrete focus that finally scuttles the story being told.
She is matched in her determination by most of the other tourists, who scuttle about like termites, obstructing the monks as they circle the arena in their ritual costumes, to the sound of conch trumpets and drums.
He's a natural-born performer, exuding charisma on stage - and frequently off it, as he scuttles into the crowd to give a wary punter a passionate bear hug.
A nearby wolf pounced on the bird first and the rodent scuttled to freedom.
He did his duty, but he scuttled back to his seat as soon as he decently could. Times, Sunday Times
Since everything that follows -- from the shrieking brattle of "Two Sails on a Sound" to the enchanted tribal vocal exercises of "Slippi" to the slow-building celebratory scuttle of "Too Soon" -- feels similarly crazed, drug-induced, and apparitional, Here Comes the Indian makes for particularly lucid listening.
A scuttle, through which sweepings and refuse may be put into the cellar, is seen at _f_. _g_ is a bin receiving cut hay from the third story, or hay-room, _h h h h h h_, bins for grain-feed. _i_ is a tunnel to conduct manure or muck from the hay-floor to the cellar. _j j_, sliding-doors on wheels. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
On more than one occasion, he scuttles off with an item and swaps it for the fat free version, so that by the time we get to the checkout, I am stuck with a selection that would've left a supermodel hungry.
Out it came, and scuttled behind the wardrobe. The Sun
He will also strictly keep aloof from their activities if they try to scuttle the success of another star's film.
Three shuttle buses will scuttle those too lushed to sashay thru the city on their way toward this exclusive after party.
As she carried the clay pots, six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.
Pop-up bonnets are not sufficient to eliminate head contact with the stiff windscreen scuttle and the A pillar, especially in small cars, and windscreen airbags are being developed to cover these stiffer regions.
In one episode, a small, pinkish earwig-type creature scuttles across the floor, up a man's pants and into his mouth.
Coal scuttles are essentially the things that you use to pour coal or coke into a little pot-bellied oven that you'd have in the centre of your room to warm yourself.
The senator did his best to scuttle the tax increase.
I hear scuttlebutt that you got an eyes-only message from High Command over the hyperwave.
Something scuttled out of the torch beam, hopping across the ceiling lathes into the shadows.
Thank goodness they didn't get their way and Clinton left office with higher approval ratings than their poster boy Reagan but they did scuttle heath care reform leaving millions of Americans the right to die unhelped by the state. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Learn more about the word "scuttle" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary. NYT > Home Page
If Hymath could learn of our whereabouts in Mainport, probably just from local scuttlebutt and word of mouth, then anyone else could also find us.
Each of these episodes are played so broadly they kind of scuttle the ship in the other regard. Don't even think it
The raid succeeded in as much as two ships were successfully scuttled. Times, Sunday Times
But intense political and public opposition scuttled the prosecution and it is unclear where - or whether - Mohammed will be tried. Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
Our State and Federal Governments, intimidated by the medical fraternity's recent show of muscle, have scuttled new liability legislation through their parliaments post-haste.
Musicians scuttled between a cattle pen at the front of the stalls and the unseen stage rear. Times, Sunday Times
The scuttlebutt of late is that product labels containing statements such as ‘No Hormones’ or ‘Hormone Free’ are misleading American consumers.
Quirk: "Keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece. Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars
He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
Ariel: Uh, I'm sorry, I've gotta go. Thank you, Scuttle.
Its little brown body scuttles across the floor, traveling like the cars outside of my window.
In the absence of hard fact, rumours began to scuttle around. Times, Sunday Times
In response to this campaign, the Liberals have scuttled still further to the right.
It's not just her physical similarity to Garland, though her eyes are googly, her teeth are goofy, and when she crosses her hotel bedroom it is with just the right kind of antic scuttle. End of the Rainbow; The Invisible Man – reviews
Yes, you'd better not meddle with the darkies if you don't want your fingers smutted, Miss Anne; for young ladies with smutty fingers, don't succeed in society very well, you'd much better attend to your fineries, and exert your superfluous reformatory energies upon one of those marvellous structures which you call a bonnet, and I call a coal-scuttle. Sister Anne's Vocation.
But this is not the time to scuttle the ship. Times, Sunday Times
The hedgehog scuttles off along the wall, until the dancing is only a distant noise and he unfolds back into a boy.
Twice he brought in his walking stick, and once he brought in the coal scuttle. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
But if it scuttled down into the depths of my body no power could prevent my violent convulsion. SKORPION'S DEATH
The scuttle was the interesting point with him; and he saw that it was provided with a hasp and staple, so that the entrance could be secured by a padlock, though that was missing. Taken by the Enemy
A large red crab scuttled across the metal, hoping to avoid the snapper.
DRDO scuttled a contract that was on the verge of being signed by India in 1997 for the import of a Weapon Locating Radar as the latter promised to produce it indigenously within two years.
He died while anchored off the coast of Portobelo and his two badly damaged ships were scuttled to avoid them, or their contents, falling into Spanish hands. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
And the Captains Three called courteously from deck to scuttle-butt: -- Verses 1889-1896
But this is not the time to scuttle the ship. Times, Sunday Times
All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship.
That timeline was scuttled when lawyers for the Pakistani government, which had indicated it would support Davis's immunity claim at the hearing, said they needed more time to prepare a position. Court gives Pakistan 3 weeks to decide American's immunity
The deluge of water that poured down through the fore-scuttle was sufficient in volume to actually wash several of the men out of their bunks; and the instant that the inpour ceased, all hands with one accord sprang for the opening, fighting together like savage beasts in their anxiety to reach the deck. The Castaways
The natural instinct was to scuttle for shelter.
He did his duty, but he scuttled back to his seat as soon as he decently could. Times, Sunday Times
Even as I scuttled away, the cabayo plunged straight into the brush, lost its footing where the bank dropped off, and somersaulted onto its back amid a crackle of stems and branches. Fire The Sky
He scuttled off, gibbering with delight, to make it habitable.
The natural instinct was to scuttle for shelter.
As a result, the insect scuttles around on automatic pilot.
He conjured a wonderful lob that hit the green but scuttled through to the fringe beyond, some 20 feet from the hole. Times, Sunday Times

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