scraps

Example Sentences

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When food was available, they did not hesitate to feed on the remains of dead animals, even down to the last scraps.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

I make hotpads from worn-out terry cloth towels and I turn fabric scraps into comforter tops.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

“I wrote ‘Dept. of Speculation’ in little scraps just after I had a baby,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

So from this perspective, I can see how someone reeling from a major loss might wish to feed scraps of data into a large language model and have it spit out a loved-one-shaped bot.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

After a week’s time, he could make pepper boxes and graters from scraps of tin.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis