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How to pronounce scudding in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms scud
Type of hurrying, speed, speeding
Derivation scud

Examples of scudding

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Rainbows and scudding clouds kept the sky in a state of constant transformation.
From the boston.com
The glacier was calving and the icebergs were scudding through the water like torpedoes.
From the sacbee.com
There's something particularly sweet about those scudding clouds and dry, slanting valleys.
From the sfgate.com
The pilot becomes a gout of smoke, the propeller detaches crazily, scudding across the earth.
From the time.com
The sky remained dourly gray, the weather close and humid with scudding clouds and wind gusts.
From the washingtonpost.com
The mood of Billy Bishop is constantly changing, like the surface of a lake under scudding clouds.
From the time.com
Vallejo had charmed her way on to another plane, and was already scudding across the Atlantic.
From the guardian.co.uk
The weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility.
From the time.com
Inside the ICA, the avant-garde art impresses me less than the views of sailing boats scudding across the harbour.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
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  • Dart: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
  • Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. ...
  • Scud clouds, a type of fractus cloud, are low, detached, irregular clouds found beneath cumulonimbus clouds. These clouds are often ragged or wispy in appearance. When caught in the outflow (downdraft) beneath a thunderstorm, scud clouds will often move faster than the storm clouds themselves. ...
  • This is a list of characters from the Toy Story trilogy which consists of the animated films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Toy Story 3.
  • The act of scudding; Clouds or rain driven by the wind; A gust of wind; A scab on a wound; Pornography; Irn-Bru; A Soviet-developed ballistic missile; To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds); To run before a high wind with no sails set; To hit; To speed; To skim; Naked
  • (Scuds) What you get if you drink the wrong water in Mexico
  • (Scuds) Any of several freshwater crustaceans of the order Amphipoda, which are important fish foods and have supplied numerous nymph patterns.
  • A name given by sailors to the lowest clouds, which are mostly observed in squally weather.