scratch
Example Sentences
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“What does chicken pox have to do with it?” he wanted to know, but my mother said he was just tired of watching Charlie and me scratch.
From Literature
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Uber’s service became much better after starting from scratch and using an AI agent to develop new policies, according to Khosrowshahi.
From MarketWatch
If it were her back or another tough area that warranted a good scratch, she would use the bristle end of a broom.
From BBC
"I want to show the world what Africa really is," Speed declared during his South Africa stop - where he went car-spinning, learned some amapiano dance moves and got scratched by a cheetah.
From BBC
People are using it to analyze federal economic data, recover wedding photos from a corrupted hard drive, build new websites from scratch, answer a barrage of emails or order food.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.