scrapper

Example Sentences

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"I've got a punch bag in the garage but I'm not a scrapper," he said, adding that his actions at the time were about self preservation.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Guralnick’s new book is the story of an immigrant scrapper who became a kingmaker with his unerring instinct for the main chance.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

The city's Department of Public Health eventually denied the permit the scrapper needed to operate.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2023

In his bio, Sigg presented himself not as a scrapper but as a savant with “unprecedented standards.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022

But that was when he was Sparrer Muldoon, street gamin and champion scrapper of the gang; with no higher ethics than the right of might.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)