scraps

Example Sentences

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Her husband tried feeding their child scraps of leftover bread as families huddled in an unfinished building near the outpost, some without proper food for days.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Crowther shares a few scraps of despairing, Plathian verse, but almost entirely neglects her unfinished posthumous memoir, published in 1974 as “My Story.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Suddenly, the half-empty carton of cream in the fridge, the berries on the brink of collapse and the hamburger buns lingering in the bread box stop looking like scraps and start looking like material.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

When food was available, they did not hesitate to feed on the remains of dead animals, even down to the last scraps.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

I imagine each little piece drifting on top of the ocean, fish and turtles choking on it, dying with plastic scraps in their stomach.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy