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Scraping
"Scraping" in a Sentence (14 examples)
I'm managing scraping along on a small salary.
He is scraping on the violin.
We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.
Mary is scraping her heels.
The zombie dragged his rotten leg behind him with an eerie scraping sound.
Holmes was engaged in his favourite occupation of scraping upon his violin.
The sentence was primitive, scraping its knuckles on the floor and grunting with heavy threats.
Like most rural Cambodians, Prem labors in the informal economy, scraping together a living by farming two types of rice on his 1.5 hectares of paddy field, and repairing his neighbors’ bicycles and motorbikes.
The loud sounds of sawing, drilling and scraping reverberate around the room.
Campana, who calls himself an animal orthotist, is sawing a piece of medical grade plastic in half, pouring plaster into molds, and scraping hardened plaster from a soon to be finished device to make sure it fits his client just right.
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We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.
the scrapings of roads and ditches
[…] the tables in the refectory would be laid out with plates of bread and scrapings of butter, with bowls ready for the saltless and slightly burned porridge, with the dark wells of golden syrup that served a universal purpose in early Australian cookery.
The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.
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