How to Use scoot in a Sentence

scoot

verb

• He scooted closer to the table.
• She scooted her chair back a few inches.
• She talked to us for a few minutes before scooting off to some appointment.
• Looks like snow will scoot out of here on the fast side.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• The door swung open and a man jumped in, forcing me to scoot over on the back seat.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• The doe keeps turning and scooting away and shakes two of the fawns.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
• That's enough shove to scoot this brick to 62 mph in 4.5 seconds.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
• Get too aggressive with the chip, and the ball will scoot to the other side of the green.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
• Remove the baking sheet from the oven, and scoot the pumpkin pieces to one side of the sheet.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Fesmire scooted to the front of the board, while Rubinstein got on the back.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
• In one child’s room, a CB2 sofa scoots up to a Blu Dot bed.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
• Hence the name Scooter, who scoots her way through life.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• To scoot past the summer swarms on Trail Ridge Road, head south or west.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 23 June 2022
• Carefully lift the edges of the dough and scoot the dough into the bottom corners of the dish.
  — SI.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• You will be asked to scoot your buttocks down to the very edge of the exam table.
  — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
• Place some chairs around this circle, sit in them, scoot them out.
  — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Zoom around the courtyard (or scoot along the edge, holding onto the rail—hey!
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 Sep. 2017
• Others may want to scoot their boots to the tunes played by DJ Paul Andrews.
  — Faye Reeder, star-telegram, 9 Sep. 2017
• But scooter-ers haven’t always scooted on the right side of the law.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
• Then, scoot the coals to one side, leaving the other side empty.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Elordi slides down the stairs on his side, crawls down the steps, and at one point, scoots down the small flight of stairs step by step.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
• Two other kid scoot away from the home out of the camera's vision.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
• But then the doors opened, and Petit scooted out into the fresh air.
  — Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• My’onna could no longer scoot down waterslides or kick her feet in the pool.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• But Harper stole second on the third strike and Quinn scooted home on the throw.
  — Rob Maaddi, sun-sentinel.com, 22 June 2019
• And this pup scooted right up next to the TV for his performance.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 21 Mar. 2020
• That maybe most of its rain would fall Saturday night and scoot away.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• They have only been asked to scoot over so others can pull up a seat.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 Aug. 2017
• The guard can scoot to the basketball off the dribble, shoot from the outside and even post up when her team needs her to.
  — Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2018
• During the first ride down at the reopening, all three sliders got stuck halfway down and had to scoot over the final bumps.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024