scrapings
Example Sentences
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More problems were found at a factory that Sun had acquired in Detroit, where the diabetes drug metformin was contaminated with metal scrapings.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
The samples gathered in 1984 included locks of Mary's hair and nail scrapings.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
But at our earliest opportunity, humans also sought to profit from these substances: scrapings from a Neandertal's teeth show traces of toxins that held medicinal value, including the bases for aspirin and penicillin.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
It is no great surprise that this tastes better than the pork scrapings that McDonald’s molds into an eerily soft raft.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
There were scrapings on the big stones and perfectly round stones that Joe said were shaped by huge slides of ice that were in that very spot about a million years ago—or maybe a billion.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
