scrabble

Bruno Fernandes, perhaps the only United player to have done himself justice this season, pulled one back from the penalty spot after Casemiro was kicked during a frantic scrabble.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

Lee wanted wealth and stability, not to scrabble around in obscurity hoping to beat impossibly long odds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

With my heart hammering wildly in my chest, I scoop up the other Edith’s box and scrabble down the ladder.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

She scrabbles to find her reason for being.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 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

Some have suggested Mr Cameron is a study in "government by essay crisis" - like a student who suddenly realises work is urgently overdue, and scrabbles to put something brilliant together at the last moment.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2014

A dove scrabbles along the gutter calling hoo hoo hoo.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Her rivals cantered on as she scrabbled on the floor.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2022

Self-made billionaires, Duan and Shum included, scrabbled to the top, greasing palms along the way.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021

I scrabbled at the ground, but it was all gravel and my fingers slid right through.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

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

His feet were scrabbling to gain purchase on the little shepherdess's pink-flowered lampshade.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo