scrabbled

About a year ago, they did work on rats with an antibody called l-1, and the rats kind of scrabbled around.

CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2004 2004

Never did duster flap more briskly than the one Rose used that day, and never was a room "scrabbled" to rights in such haste as hers.

Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860

His mind scrabbled for a reason why she would be in New Orleans instead of at her desk in FBI headquarters in D.C. She was years and many pay grades away from field work.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

Maybe shrews have scrabbled its narrowed neck and birds pecked its silver lid, hoping for the tender fruits inside.

A bottle of raspberries Gill Hoffs 2011

My thoughts scrabbled fretfully over one another or else they dripped so slowly there seemed large blank spaces between them, and I would stare at whatever was in front of me, as though life were a dull slide show.

Out from under my brother's dark shadow 2011

Hands shaking, breath whistling in and out of her throat in half-sobs, she scrabbled frantically in the bathroom drawers.

Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

Plucky researchers had scrabbled to find a Traveller wedding to juxtapose with Kate and William's.

My Big Fat Royal Gypsy Wedding and William and Kate: In Their Own Words 2011

Eir and Garm struggled to stay upright as the ice cave shook, and Big Snaff and Big Zojja scrabbled to keep from falling into the chasm.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

The cries of boys and gods mingled as Steve and his friend scrabbled away and fled back down the hill.

GODS OF CONCRETE AND STEEL • by C.L. Holland 2009

His mind scrabbled for a reason why she would be in New Orleans instead of at her desk in FBI headquarters in D.C. She was years and many pay grades away from field work.

Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011