scrabble

Some people scrabble together their scant savings to make the payment or get the money from their relatives in the diaspora.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024

“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

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

Beneath the debris I could hear the scrabble of tiny feet, some rodentine dark-dweller that had survived the implosion of its world.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

At the novel’s outset, Ezra scrabbles through his world with honest hunger and understandable, if sometimes pedantic, disdain for those with more than him.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

So Pluto is doubly fitting for the doppelgänger who ascended from underground and scrabbles around on all fours.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 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

In the meantime, Queenie breaks free and scrabbles up the hill.

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

In the second half, Roper hit the ball into the bottom-right corner on the run, before he scrabbled to get the ball across the line to put England 5-3 up.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022

Some people tried to lock the beasts out as they scrabbled at the door.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021

A dog’s scrabbled paw prints, a bobcat at best.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018

The woman dropped a hand from her face and scrabbled about on the floor, picking up the broken handle of some earthenware porringer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

The change meant the UK had to "build out" relationships with allies around the world but also invest in the UK's own economy, Jones said, denying ministers were "scrabbling" for solutions.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 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

The dragon moved awkwardly on the ground, like a man scrabbling on his knees and elbows, but quicker than the Domish prince would have believed.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin