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5 total sentences available.
In the driver’s seat of a scuffed yellow forklift, Wade Tate wheels through a vast distribution center on this city’s outskirts, storing inventory—boxes of machine parts or Sterno fuel kits—and fulfilling customers’ orders.
Source: tatoeba (11641445)
I scuffed my shoe on the door.
Source: wiktionary
I bought a scuffed skateboard from a second-hand store.
Source: wiktionary
I have one photograph of her and there have been times—though no longer, I swear it, she is dead for me—when I would have given my soul for just one more. I found it in an old scuffed Bible when I was Tom's age, in a suburban mansion we were hastily vacating.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include abrade, abraded, blemish, blemished, bumped.
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