scudded

That time I didn't smell the leather so much as taste it as it scudded off the meat of the bat and shredded my bottom lip.

Mohinder Amarnath's bravery for India was a lesson for the cricket world | Rob Bagchi 2011

It scudded forward, its scales shivering with anticipation.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

It scudded forward, its scales shivering with anticipation.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

It scudded forward, its scales shivering with anticipation.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

As they scudded over the massive construction site where the Twin Towers had once stood, Gideon had to restrain himself from asking Parker what the hell was going on.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

It scudded forward, its scales shivering with anticipation.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

As they scudded over the massive construction site where the Twin Towers had once stood, Gideon had to restrain himself from asking Parker what the hell was going on.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

As they scudded over the massive construction site where the Twin Towers had once stood, Gideon had to restrain himself from asking Parker what the hell was going on.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

Fennix tilted his head back to look at the clouds that scudded across the sky as if they had somewhere to be.

BEYOND THE GATE • by C.L. Holland 2009

To take the prize for best purple prose, Mike Pedersen of North Berwick, Maine, relied on a thesaurus'-worth of synonyms:"As his small boat scudded before a brisk breeze under a sapphire sky dappled with cerulean clouds with indigo bases, through cobalt seas that deepened to navy nearer the boat and faded to azure at the horizon, Ian was at a loss as to why he felt blue."

Wisconsin professor wins 2011 bad writing contest 2011