scraps
Example Sentences
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They also each serve the same purpose: to keep the public distant, confused, and grateful for whatever miserly scraps of information the justices deign to release to us.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
A few hours later, the bones had become weeks of soup — proof that one of the most intimidating “scratch staples” is mostly just time, heat and scraps.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
That left a fourth engine, who was not used in any story but would be made out of scraps and gifted to Christopher Awdryat Christmas.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The Readymade—the found object transformed into art—has its roots in the Picasso’s and Braque’s Cubist collages, which incorporated scraps of newspaper, textiles, sheet music and wall paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Cigarette butts, crushed soda cans, scraps of plastic bags, candy bar wrappers, a smushed box of half-eaten French fries.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
