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

"I don't want my kids to have to worry about scuffing their knees or playing in puddles," she said.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2022

Then came a sort of scuffing, thumping noise—it sounded like Jackson kicking something out of the way with his boot—and the boys were led inside.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart