scape
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Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
“The trick is to choose bulbs that don’t scream ‘Christmastime’ and add subtle ambiance,” says Robert Hobart, owner of Brite- scape, a landscape lighting design and installation firm in Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022
In L.A., where lowrider culture reigns supreme, a custom 1960 Chevrolet Impala is still cruising slow down Van Nuys Boulevard to show off the intricate airbrush scape on its hood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Fertile flower solitary on a very long scape.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
The chase endured a five English miles, and if the Scots had been men enow, there had none scaped, but other they had been taken or slain.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
Hard was his lot whom these rare qualities Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart Been iron, had he scaped his cruel doom.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
—Nay, sir, you must tarry, Though he be scaped; and answer by the ears, sir.
From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben
What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by Playtner, H. R.