scrabble

“It was louder and closer; it was no longer a single belligerent hum glinting with accents of brass; it had diversified into a rolling scrabble of anger, holiday high spirits and sports crowd roar.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Don’t just rely on your phone’s memory; you might not be the one making the phone call and it saves time not to have to scrabble around.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

The policy spurs a scrabble for more hard currency.

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023

Like my parents and many others I knew in the South Bronx, they scrabble to hang on and perhaps wonder if anyone sees or hears their distress.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023

I swing toward the cliff face and scrabble for a handhold.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

When that happens, rather than tell her friends how she feels, she scrabbles around for extra money.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

She scrabbles to find her reason for being.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023

But in one instance, a dog uses Halle Berry’s back as a springboard, then scrabbles up the wall to the second story and attacks a gunman on a balcony.

From Slate ● May 16, 2019

As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf:

From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016

She scrabbles across the floor and leaps onto Walter, licking his face and wagging so hard she topples backward.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

As she scrabbled for a laser pointer in her large handbag, her coloratura was comically on point, though she was inaudible in her middle range during the cabaletta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

Her rivals cantered on as she scrabbled on the floor.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2022

He scrabbled with all four paws, found some purchase, and scarpered up the slope and away.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

Though there were some imprecise entrances and occasional scrabbled passages in his “Fidelio,” he brought breadth, shape and character to Beethoven’s score over all, and provided sensitive support to the cast and chorus.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2017

This assortment scrabbled unhappily against the tin of the lunch bucket.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Europe’s scrabbling together of funds to put into the pot is important here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

This is, though, where much of Europe has been for some time: scrabbling around for scraps from the Premier League’s table.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

When few other animals are out and about, wolverines are scrabbling up frozen slopes with their crampon-like claws and crunching through frozen bones of carrion dug out of snow.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Central to the story the Kroffts continued to tell is that they were a relatively small, independent company among Hollywood combines, and so were often scrabbling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Nine squealed, scrabbling to stay on his feet.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman