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
In a nondescript Culver City warehouse, members of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold wear protective booties over their shoes to avoid scuffing the floor-to-ceiling green screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
She scowled, scuffing her bejeweled lavender Crocs against the cement and ignoring her mother.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
“Guys were cutting balls and stuff like that, scuffing and altering balls.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Afterward, as he crossed the darkening courthouse square, pensively scuffing through dry mounds of unraked leaves, Dewey wondered at his lack of elation.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
