How to Use scuttle in a Sentence

scuttle

1 of 2 verb

• The dismissal of the wire fraud count could have scuttled that case.
  — City News Service, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
• The dismissal of the wire fraud count could have scuttled that case.
  — City News Service, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
• Even orcas want to eat the rich—or at least scuttle their yachts.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• Hilton and Bianco want to scuttle the project.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
• Crabs scuttle across the seafloor as water ripples around your feet.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Hermit crabs scuttled away from close calls beneath my boots.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
• As long as the three of them stick together, there is a clear way to scuttle the deal.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2021
• So how did fishing become the issue that might scuttle a trade deal?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2020
• San Jose had scuttled through a winless June.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
• Now the deal is scuttled, and a new hearing is April 22.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
• Platonov’s novel was set up in type, but, at the last minute, the publisher scuttled the project.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• For more than two years, plans to return to Niger were scuttled by the pandemic.
  — Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
• Other artists come in and draw out aspects of the book to the fore, and other aspects are scuttled away.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• Two of the wind projects were scuttled by developers, while three others got built.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
• Fireflies danced around us in the night, and chunky redheaded agama lizards scuttled along the walls.
  — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
• The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.
  — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• But every few minutes, one of the diggers scuttled out of the muck clutching a keeper.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Might a reluctance to include one of them scuttle a potential deal?
  — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Then, when the outfielder took a ball, De La Cruz scuttled to third base.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• And what is your plan if the government ultimately scuttles the deal?
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Billions of dollars, countless data points, years of practice and dreams, all scuttled in about a month.
  — George Allen, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2023
• After the snake man left in the morning, the shepherd scuttled down to the newspaper offices.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
• The re-inspection got scuttled by four dead roaches and, next to a cookline handwash sink, three live roaches.
  — David J. Neal updated August 8, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
• It was considered the biggest spider ever to scuttle across the Earth.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The game has been his passion since his earliest days, passed down by his father whose own dreams of playing were scuttled by an injury.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• Many said the housing units are cramped and squalid, with cockroaches scuttling across the floor and a briny water supply that caused rashes.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• So the system was pretty much scuttled in favor of letting the recipient choose the presents.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• But developments in Syria were about to scuttle the entire process.
  — Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2022
• The researchers think all those extra appendages might be a boon to the critters, who need to scuttle through tight underground spaces.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• Officers standing in front of the metal barriers had to scuttle out of the way to avoid being trampled by the horse.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 6 May 2023

scuttle

2 of 2 noun

• Porcelain crabs scuttle by tiny starfish clinging to the blades.
  — Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• An empty soda bottle scuttles by and the wind yelps with rage and grief and then a car alarm goes off.
  — Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• Early in the novel, hundreds of crabs scuttle in the dark through forests and onto roads.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2021
• Seeing a spider scuttle across the floor or hearing the buzz of a wasp in your ear is enough to make anyone jumpy.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• In the shallow reefs off the coast of southwestern Japan, a small fish scuttles along the rocky seafloor.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
• In the clip, the small dog scuttles into the room clutching his ragged bear, which has a hole that has caused its stuffing to spill out.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
• But this gleaming orange metal was not just made into kettles and coal scuttles.
  — Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024
• The scuttle of fiddler crabs no longer accompanies walks to a nearby creek.
  — James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Phorid flies, also known as scuttle flies, are tiny insects that are often mistaken for fruit flies.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 28 June 2026
• Twice, a jaw-grinder with dreadful tats scuttles by murmuring, in a serious rush.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
• The crab scuttles from side to side, encouraging babies to get moving.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
• In the rocky intertidal zones along the coast of Taiwan, a five-armed creature scuttles along the seafloor.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 June 2025
• In the video, a hermit crab scuttles amongst numerous shells before choosing one to move into.
  — Kelli Bender, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• And the industry scuttle was that Soto may have blown his best chance to make record-breaking money.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• And does the fact that he'll be gone when Rhaenyra shows up to take the city scuttle her deal with Alicent—a son for a son?
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• On the scuttle panel (the black strip of plastic between the windshield and hood), 60% of insects stuck it out.
  — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 9 July 2024
• The red creatures blanket highways and scuttle over barriers, seeking food.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Three more inmates sitting at a nearby table scuttle away, while several more watch the attack from a distance.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• Nevill Bamber lay slumped over an upturned chair by the kitchen hearth, blue pajama pants around his knees, his face resting inside a coal scuttle.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Between the curb and façade, a familiar sidewalk scuttle defined the scene as an NYC film shoot.
  — Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
• And would a withdrawal by Biden scuttle the debate altogether?
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 22 May 2024
• The deal scuttles city or county efforts to pursue higher wage boosts until the agreement expires in 2029.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sparked by the wet season’s first rains and synchronized to the cycle of the moon, these crabs scuttle across the island — sometimes traversing roads with the help of crab bridges — towards the water to breed.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
• This Apple-Beeper scuttle has continued for a month, reports TechCrunch.
  — Byalexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Track three scuttles atop a bed of pine needles and broken eggshells, a nervous, almost dubsteppy rhythm haloed in Four Tet’s characteristic bell tones.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
• Classical simulations can also control the noise that plagues real quantum processors and often scuttles quantum runs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
• The scuttle demonstrates how difficult McCarthy’s leadership role remains.
  — Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona, CNN, 25 July 2021
• The erosion of these traditional norms on the Internet scuttles authentic debate on the rocks of superstition, impulse, emotion, and bias.
  — Martin J. O'Malley and Peter L. Levin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2017
• As the actors strike scuttles Hollywood productions, as well as events promoting performers' work, one movie premiere went forward as scheduled, albeit without its stars.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 July 2023
• This snapping shrimp scuttles through the reefs around Ambon Island in Indonesia, creating a cacophony with its closing claw.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023