skittered

past tense of skitter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of skittered Bats were flipped, benches cleared, Toronto’s manager was ejected and throws skittered around PNC Park. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 Rumors of a Satanic curse on the event skittered around the Haight, so early on the morning of the 14th, Ginsberg, Snyder, and Alan Watts conducted a pradakshina, a Buddhist purification rite. Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skittered
Verb
  • In the tall-grass prairies that once spread out across pre-settlement Indiana, tiny ground squirrels scurried through the wildflowers, grasses and shrubs.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Brett Ryan, aided by Robbie Carter’s young daughter, scurried to place markers at the sites of the longest throws, before chucking the corpses back to the starting line.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His eyes darted around, finding nowhere to rest.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Some attendees darted to a nearby building and ran through a water fountain to escape.
    Rachel Wolf , Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Their tops and Tate’s hair fluttered in the breeze of a wind machine absurdly cranked up to Stage 4 hurricane levels.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There was a whole movie where a dead man danced for 90 minutes.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • It's being reported that this demon who danced on Charlie Kirk's grave has been expelled from Texas Tech.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Aronofsky has, since the grittiness of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, flitted with alacrity from genre to genre, trying his hand at biblical epics (Noah) and claustrophobic dramas (The Whale).
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nine flies flitted about the place, three of which flew around utensils in kitchen storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Skittered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skittered. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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