scrape out

Example Sentences

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Finger marks inside some jars suggest looters tried to scrape out the contents as completely as possible.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025

Each has consequences on the longer-term lifespan of whatever intimacies their characters can scrape out for themselves.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2024

“There’s so many different challenges that we go to try to bottle them up and limit as many as we can just to try to scrape out some wins, you know,” Russell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

But a technician discovered that if they used a spatula to hold open a flap, they could scrape out much of the grit with tweezers.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 11, 2023

Occasionally they were able to scrape out an extra bit of food for themselves and the little ones while cleaning the pots, burned pieces of potatoes that had stuck to the bottom.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen