scrape
Example Sentences
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“The water comes out in very fast movements, with a high velocity, and it scrapes away all these materials” from the valley, said Sattar, creating a “hyper-concentrated” flood that is savage in its power.
A Pulitzer Prize winner for “Between Riverside and Crazy,” he writes punchy dialogue and specializes in characters scraping by on the margins of New York life.
The company has scraped by, he said, because it had a decent cushion before the tariffs were imposed.
Red flags scrape my intestines, making them knot together.
From Literature
But a tumble, a scrape, a small cut or burn—Clare barely felt at all.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
