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

However, one did add that it was "absurd" that the WHO still has to scrabble for money after COVID-19.

From Reuters ● Jan. 30, 2023

I scrabble for something to hold on to as the door swings open, and I tumble out, a mountain of instrument cases cascading all around me.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

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

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

Patients scrabbled for whatever dignity they could salvage during their terrifying tour through the dark forest of tubes, needles and knives.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

In another clip, we see a man scrabbling in the roadway to gather up spilt flour.

From BBC ● Feb. 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

Our hands collided, both scrabbling for it in our panic to get it hidden, and it fell into the bubbling water of the fountain and vanished.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin