scrabble

It might not be up to John Cena standards, but she’s clearly figured at least a few things out along her scrabble to undeniable stardom.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

“Imagine you have scrabble tiles that spell out ‘Powerball.’

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 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

Speaking to Newsbeat down the coast from Dundee at Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, she says there's been "this sort of scrabble for the next big personality".

From BBC ● May 30, 2023

I scrabble around in my bag for a scrap of paper.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

She scrabbles to find her reason for being.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023

Such scrums and scrabbles can be found around England on Shrove Tuesday, from Corfe Castle in Dorset to Alnwick in Northumberland via Ashbourne in Derbyshire and Atherstone in Warwickshire.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2020

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

He scrabbles back, then starts sniffing at some bushes like there ain’t nothing unusual going on in the world.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

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

Swiss lawmakers have since scrabbled together six counterproposals.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023

"Doctors scrabbled to do the most urgent of surgeries, portering, scrubbing the floors, working with one or two remaining nursing staff. Matrons were washing linen," one doctor wrote by email.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020

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

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018

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

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

The second senior resignation in two days leaves Sir Keir scrabbling to shore up his position as prime minister following the resignation of his top adviser McSweeney on Sunday.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

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

The face-off lasted for seconds that stretched into eternity, and then, with the scrabbling of claws, the dragon fled to the darkness at the rear of the barn.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack