The room was littered with scraps of paper.
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Scraps
//skɹæps//
Synonyms for "scraps" (71 found)
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36 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- остатъци noun (leftover food)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 殘羹剩飯 /残羹剩饭 noun (leftover food)
Czech
1 entries- zbytky noun (leftover food)
Dutch
2 entries- etensresten noun (leftover food)
- restjes noun (leftover food)
Finnish
2 entries- ruoantähteet noun (leftover food)
- tähteet noun (leftover food)
French
1 entries- restes (de nourriture) noun (leftover food)
Galician
3 entries- migalla noun (leftover food)
- raspallo noun (leftover food)
- ripote noun (leftover food)
German
3 entries- Essensreste noun (leftover food)
- Reste noun (leftover food)
- Speisereste noun (leftover food)
Irish
1 entries- fuílleach noun (leftover food)
Italian
2 entries- avanzo noun (leftover food)
- resto noun (leftover food)
Japanese
1 entries- 食べ残し noun (leftover food)
Māori
4 entries- paka noun (leftover food)
- pakapaka noun (leftover food)
- pakopako noun (leftover food)
- parakai noun (leftover food)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- levning noun (leftover food)
Polish
1 entries- resztki noun (leftover food)
Portuguese
2 entries- restos noun (leftover food)
- sobras noun (leftover food)
Romanian
1 entries- resturi noun (leftover food)
Russian
3 entries- объе́дки noun (leftover food)
- оста́тки noun (leftover food)
- очи́стки noun (leftover food)
Spanish
4 entries- piltrafas noun (leftover food)
- restos noun (leftover food)
- retallón noun (leftover food)
- sobejos noun (leftover food)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thực phẩm thừa noun (leftover food)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Deep water fish never see the light and live all their lives from the scraps that come from above.
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I'm only reading the scraps on news on the Internet, but, well, I get the general picture.
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It still amazes me what she could coax out of table scraps.
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