scrapper

Example Sentences

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"I've got a punch bag in the garage but I'm not a scrapper," he said, adding that his actions at the time were about self preservation.

From BBC

Yet the long-term forecasts are for copper prices to rise in order to sufficiently motivate miners, refiners and scrappers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Guralnick’s new book is the story of an immigrant scrapper who became a kingmaker with his unerring instinct for the main chance.

From Los Angeles Times

Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.

From Los Angeles Times

Harris came across as a tough scrapper who could think on her feet and conceivably handle the rigors of the Oval Office.

From Los Angeles Times