scatted

past tense of scat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scatted
Verb
  • Two 12-year-old girls escaped the fire.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Families escaped to calm waters for canoeing, hiking, and long afternoons spent idling on the shore.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The black-and-white video featured special appearances by his wife Hailey and their son Jack as Bieber crooned.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • After a triumphal return to the United States in 2022, where spectators goggled at sumo wrestling in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and crooned along with Lionel Ritchie during the closing ceremony, the event has moved to Chengdu, the emerging sports hub of western China.
    Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Cicadas hummed as the sun set over the Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Municipal Building Tuesday, as a crowd of somber faces turned towards a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department vehicle.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Interstate 10 hummed with cars rushing north toward Phoenix, drivers pushing to get ahead of what was bearing down on them.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • During an interview at Variety‘s TIFF studio alongside the film’s director and co-writer, Hikari, the actor admitted that the rise of streaming has lit an extra fire under him to choose winning projects.
    William Earl, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Neither quarterback lit the world on fire as a rookie, though Maye posted comparable -- if not better -- stats to Williams with less playing time.
    Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Historically, when Democrats have absconded, Republicans have issued state arrest warrants—a symbolic gesture, since the lawmakers had already left Texas—and imposed fines to compel them to return.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The Hallfords then absconded to Oklahoma but were arrested in November 2023.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Debose got out on a $10,000 bond due to the choices of a magistrate in that pursuit case, but Hartig was still handling the proceedings.
    Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Word got out and, even before The Public Eye was released, Jerry was cast as Paul House, the murderer in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery — a role every bit as big as Diane Keaton’s, Alan Alda’s or Angelica Huston’s.
    Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Quick hits The Los Angeles Rams trolled Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh after the Rams' preseason victory.
    Christian Romo, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The former Philadelphia Eagles player did, however, switch up his appearance — and was playfully trolled about it on X!
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The front office cleared out the vast majority of its middle-class veterans this past offseason for cash-saving purposes and left those spots to be filled with kids.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In mice, half the CO in the bloodstream was cleared out in less than a minute, freeing the hemoglobin on the cells to once again start carrying O2.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Scatted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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