SCUTTLE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for SCUTTLE, such as:

1. The upper story had scuttles like prisons.
2. The bugs scuttle rapidly across the floor.
3. A crab scuttled away under a rock as we passed.
4. Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
5. I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCUTTLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scuttle
 v.  deliberately sink ship by order of commander, rather than by enemy action
Classic Sentence:
1  Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
2  And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals rousing himself to see how the night wore on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
3  But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, 'To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea' where.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Thrust it out of men's sight into a long hole in the ground, into the grave, to rot, to feed the mass of its creeping worms and to be devoured by scuttling plump-bellied rats.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  The upper story had scuttles like prisons.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
Example Sentence:
1  The bugs scuttle rapidly across the floor.
2  The sailors decided to scuttle their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.
3  Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
4  A crab scuttled away under a rock as we passed.
5  Spencer scuttled away from Young to shoot wide when he should have scored.