scrape off

Example Sentences

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Swenson said the corps will also scrape off the top six inches of contaminated soil from the burn area.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a worm — use their tiny hook-shaped teeth to scrape off their mother’s skin and feast.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

I practically lived at my babysitter’s house then, so I used to go into her kitchen and grab a teaspoon, and angle it enough to scrape off this sugary top.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023

If you find an egg mass on a tree that you can scrape off, you’re making a bigger impact, but realistically the only way the infestation can be combatted is on an industrial scale.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2022

Whenever Stormy wasn’t watching, we would cut off a piece of prickly pear cactus, scrape off the spines, and suck out the juice.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac