![]() 1.2 with adverbial of direction Scramble or crawl quickly.‘‘Look, there's a nuthatch scrabbling on the tree trunk,’ the mother tells the little girl.’.‘Kaiyo's body twisted on the floor, paws scrabbling at the tile, tails flaring as if casting a spell.’.‘This one hatched faster than the first, fierce little claws punching through the fragile shell and scrabbling to get free.’.‘Therre was no scratching and scrabbling in the dirt for these birds.’.‘The pigeons on the ledge outside scrabbled from side to side, as Catherine tapped at the glass with a fingernail.’.‘For a moment the kitten disappeared, then resurfaced, scrabbling frantically at the treacherous surface that gave no hold.’.‘We've also had to put some rodent poison up there as something is scrabbling around - we haven't seen it so we don't know what!’.‘When it finished scrabbling, the rat would believe the faeces to be buried.’.‘It may be an idea to have no bare earth for the cats to scrabble in.’.‘Last year one dog had to have two toes amputated after scrabbling insanely at his pen.’.‘His serenity makes you feel like a clucking chicken, scrabbling and pecking at the dusty ground, while he sits back and watches.’.‘During the day, he paces up and down and puts his head on her lap during nocturnal episodes, he barks and scrabbles against the bedroom door.’.‘Both of the pitiful creatures shot away, scrabbling with claws and paws across the floor and out of sight.’.‘He was leaning on the railings, munching a meat pie and watching as the birds scrabbled for the crumbs.’.‘This sunny, summer evening, we are watching small dogs scrabble around on a drab linoleum floor.’.‘Birds and other unseen creatures scrabble about in the windswept bushes of central park, but I would rather not deliberate too much about that.’.‘There are several false alarms, but eventually his dogs scrabble madly at the base of a tree.’.‘He scrabbled to gain a grip on the wall and hold himself up as he breathed in the sweet air like an addict.’.‘He jerked himself free from his own seatbelt and threw himself towards her window, scrabbling to get a hold on her.’.‘They scrabbled desperately at the rubble with their bear hands for signs of life.’.‘A group of women - made one by the black mystery of their costume - are scrabbling with their bare hands to dig a grave in rocky earth.’.‘Meanwhile I'm scrabbling in the bottom of my bag for coins, and skipping out on dinner because I don't want to spend $7 on soup.’.‘I caused bottlenecks in front of crowded Métro barriers, frantically scrabbling through my satchel for that sad little bag containing my tickets.’.‘Flinging open a cupboard and desperately scrabbling for some anti-inflammatory cream, I curse myself for positioning it in the most difficult to reach area of the top shelf.’.‘The ladder cracked and he was suddenly unsupported in the darkness, scrabbling with both hands to hold on to timbers, losing his grip and dangling from the rope.’.‘It was pitch black and we were scrabbling around until 1am trying to find them.’.‘She scrabbled in vain for purchase on the stone floor, which was smooth from the years of pedestrian traffic pounding the irregularities into powder.’.‘After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.’.‘I began to scrabble and fumble around on the floor in search of some kind of weapon.’.‘She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins.’.‘‘Sorry’ she mumbled, scrabbling on the floor for her dropped items.’.‘He took his backpack off before lying completely on the floor and furiously scrabbling at the mortar with his fingers.’.‘His fingers scrabbled over the plastic plating on the door next to him until they curled over the cold metal handle.’.‘His fingers scrabbled at the stone and found holds, but not before he dropped a foot.’.‘The boat was tilted almost vertically into the turn, and my fingers scrabbled for purchase in the slippery wood of the deck that I was careening down.’.‘The tiny knots of the branch dug into his neck as Merlin sought to find a purchase with his fingers, scrabbling against the oily branch.’.‘Giles tugged desperately at the manacles, his fingers scrabbling upward against the chain dangling them from the ceiling.’.
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