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- verb Present participle of
scuffle . - noun a
confused struggle
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Examples
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I was in the middle of planning how to hang myself from the light switch on the wall when I felt a kind of scuffling on the other side of the door.
Dexter in the Dark Lindsay, Jeff 2007
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I was in the middle of planning how to hang myself from the light switch on the wall when I felt a kind of scuffling on the other side of the door.
Dexter in the dark Lindsay, Jeff 2007
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There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.
Lavengro 2004
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"I've been kind of scuffling out there and it's nice considering how I've been playing the last couple of days," Truby said.
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There was a question, put off, too, like his work, from hour to hour, and silenced by the scuffling, meaningless movements of the day.
The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904
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There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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There was a kind of scuffling noise, the rustling of branches, and the crackling of dry sticks.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Yeah, you knew I was going to include this, didn't you - kind of scuffling a bit at the moment, but it's early yet ...
ImpeachBush 2009
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