scuffing

Example Sentences

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Pile on enough and you flirt with the risk of scuffing the roof of your mouth, which feels, to me, like an essential part of the experience.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

Lukens and tumbled, scuffing elbows and knees, and snapping the aluminum shaft of one of his walking sticks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

David Datro Fofana was guilty of one of the misses of the season shortly before the interval, somehow scuffing his shot wide after Lorenz Assignon had picked out the young Ivorian.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024

Rather than trying to remove the hundreds of feet of tape, which was supposed to protect against scuffing, the company may cover it with a safer material.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

I head up the stairs, Nat scuffing along behind me, pulling at her sweater like her shirt sleeve is caught up inside.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko