: a playful or hurried run or movement
Examples of scamper in a Sentence
Verb
The kids were scampering around the yard.
A mouse scampered across the floor.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Cassian, however, scampered away, and likely never came to know why this stranger harbored such a deeply personal vendetta.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 May 2025
Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Spencer Platt / Getty Images Hens that have room to scamper aren’t any more resistant to bird flu than those that don’t.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Verb
That allowed Bogaerts to score and Cronenworth to scamper to third.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Cassian, however, scampered away, and likely never came to know why this stranger harbored such a deeply personal vendetta.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 May 2025
Noun
Maddie badly lies that Reagan's upstairs and scampers away to shut herself in the bathroom.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Spencer Platt / Getty Images Hens that have room to scamper aren’t any more resistant to bird flu than those that don’t.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scamper
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“Scamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scamper. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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