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How to pronounce skitter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms scamper, scurry, scuttle
Type of run
Has types crab
Type Words
Synonyms skim, skip
Type of throw
Type Words
Type of glide
Type Words
Type of twitch

Examples of skitter

skitter
Heat the griddle until a few drops of water dance and skitter across the surface.
From the post-gazette.com
Without warning, the tormentors abruptly skitter out the door, never to return.
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I like the skitter-scratch of the last leaves blowing across a church parking lot.
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Flying fish skitter away from paddling surfers just outside of the breaking waves.
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Watching telephone polls topple, dumpsters skitter and roofs lift up and fly away.
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We disembark, dump the bags and skitter across town to the Field of Miracles.
From the telegraph.co.uk
All the while, the sandpipers skitter and peck in the backtrack of the waves.
From the kentucky.com
These well-developed characters skitter and tussle throughout the 16th century pub.
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Salamanders skitter along the path lined with lupine and California poppies.
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More examples
  • Scurry: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
  • Glide easily along a surface
  • Skim: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
  • Twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water
  • Falling Skies is an American science-fiction post-apocalyptic dramatic television series created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg...
  • A skittering movement; to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing; to make a skittering noise
  • Voiced by Leigh Kelly, is the first of the Tinysauruses to befriend Littlefoot. When the Tinysauruses were eating the fallen treesweets, Skitter stood on top of Littlefoot and ate one off of his nose, which he proudly remarks on down in the herd's underground dwelling. ...