The children scrambled up the hillside, laughing and shouting.
Do you want your eggs scrambled or just fried sunnyside-up?
The children were playing a game in which they had ten letters all scrambled, and had to make a word out of them.
The firemen scrambled out of
bed, and jumped into their uniforms when the siren sounded.
Fans scrambled for the baseball that was hit over the fence.
Tourists were scrambling to get a flight out of the country after the volcano showed signs of erupting.
The children scrambled down the hill to the
lake.
People are scrambling to get out of the city as the enemy troops approach.
There was a real scramble to get out of the building after the concert ended.
The new spy plane is able to fly undetected by sending out a signal that scrambles the enemy's radar.
In the
late 1800s, the European powers scrambled for control of the African continent.
Rescuers scrambled helicopters, boats and buses to save the hundreds of people stranded by the flood.
Some videotapes have a special feature that scrambles the film if you try to copy it.
Sydney Smith once said that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Starting in the 1880s, the major colonial powers scrambled to extend their political control over Africa and the Pacific.
Doug Horton once asked, "If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"
We did an exercise in class today where we got a bunch of scrambled letters, and had to make as many words out of them as possible in two minutes.