I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scrambled egg
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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The money has run out before on him, but we scrambled around to get him to stay.
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The music press scrambled around , at times rather pathetically, to grasp hold of the truth.
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Woolly monkeys and howlers, spider monkeys and capuchins, tamarins and marmosets scramble around one another reaching for the fruit.
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As the show is brought up to performance night, 100 people can be scrambling around the stage.
■ NOUN
ball
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The next time Anna had to scramble after the ball , she risked a glance at mummy.
bank
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He scrambles up the bank , heading for home.
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After the attack another lorry driver saw a man of the same height scrambling away from the river bank .
egg
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The year before he'd had scrambled eggs for Christmas dinner and no presents.
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He makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches and scrambled eggs because of his fearless use of butter.
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She went into the kitchen, scrambled three eggs and returned to the living room to eat them.
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Or, even easier, scramble some eggs and grate some of the heavenly fungus over the top.
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I am the one scrambling eggs for dinner and sitting on porches with friends while the kids roam the neighborhood on bikes.
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Instant scrambled eggs , frozen fried eggs, canned eggnog, and many other convenient egg foods are being market tested.
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Precooked and frozen scrambled eggs with sausage are one combination of ready-to-eat breakfasts being marketed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In this game, the letters of the words are scrambled.
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Most cable TV companies began scrambling their signals in the mid-1980s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Begging five minutes, I scramble to dress and throw the bed together, mind scrabbling to approximate readiness.
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Consciousness of the audience made Michael Banks nervous, and nervousness scrambled the lines in his head even further.
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Error correction is what modems do to compensate when bits get lost or scrambled because the phone connection is less than perfect.
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I noticed his look of alarm, and scrambled to my feet and stared forward, also listening intently.
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It is an up-to-date form of telephone scrambling.
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Most of those aboard the Vlorewere quickly rounded up after scrambling or swimming ashore.
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Some scramble for the freshly scrubbed MBAs; others want analysts who come from the industry they will cover.
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We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mad
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And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.
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A mad scramble followed a Dollar free throw, and Hamilton eventually grabbed the ball on the right wing.
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Spurs regained the lead in the 51st minute after a mad scramble in the United area before Jason Dozzell slotted home.
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Police contend Bagby nearly ran over two officers in a mad scramble to get home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mad scramble followed a Dollar free throw, and Hamilton eventually grabbed the ball on the right wing.
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Jane could see the village clearly, although it was a twenty-minute scramble away.
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More crusts fell from the vicious scramble overhead.
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Nor were the crowd to be denied, for they tore the black baize cloth to shreds in their scramble for souvenirs.
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There was a real scramble behind them.