Scratch

Could you please scratch my back?

Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, / The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; / Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, / Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; / Be mindful, when Invention fails, / To ſcratch your Head, and bite your Nails.

I don't like that new scarf because it scratches my neck.

Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself [translating m’écorchant] on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel.

A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.

This platter scratches easily.

Scratch what I said earlier; I was wrong.

When the favorite was scratched from the race, there was a riot at the betting windows.

Embarrassingly, he scratched on the break, popping the cue completely off the table.

If any of the Labourers can ſcratch out a Pamphlet, they deſire no more; There is no Queſtion offered about the Wit, the Style, the Argument.

Some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

The cat scratched the little girl.

Kerley, 26, is the 2019 World bronze medalist at 400 meters, a distance he is known for and with which he also won the 2017 and 2019 U.S. titles, but surprised the track world by announcing one week ago that he scratched the 400m and would focus on the 100m and 200m in Eugene, Oregon, despite not having raced the 100m between 2015 and 2020.

Hurtis-Houairi, in lane three, quickly caught Arron, who was in lane four, winning in 22.80. Arron, who scratched the 100m semis in order to focus on the longer sprint, could only run 23.44.

I can’t believe there is a scratch in the paint already.

Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.

God forbid a shallow scratch should drive / The prince of Wales from such a field as this.

The coarse file[…]makes deep scratches in the work.

These nails with scratches deform my breast.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

The dog sat up and had a good scratch.

He started a few seconds before the time and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed.

Eventually the elephant and camel were despatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch.

There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from nine horses to seven.

It's just a scratch!

He and Bruce cooked up a script together, and Bruce flew home to raise the scratch.

These are exemplified in the scurfy, scaly affections which appear in the bend of the knee (mallenders) and hock (sallenders) and on the lower parts of the limbs, by scratches, and by a scaly exfoliation[…].

[H]e turned to him with a dejected Face, and said ‘ – pray Sir, – could you touch up This a little?’ taking hold of his frightful scratch.

The handwriting in his paper is completely different when compared to his scratch on the note you gave me

This is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it.

A scratch company of two innocuous youths and a pacified veteran was therefore what now offered itself to Mrs. Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.

Bluecoats began crossing the James on June 14 and next day two corps approached Petersburg, which was held by Beauregard with a scratch force of 2,500.

scratch memory

... the shot that does most to make a genuine scratch golfer is the mashie shot up to the pin — not merely up to the green.