SCRAPE in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for SCRAPE, such as:

1. Don't scrape the plate, Scarlett.
2. Your pig may get you into a scrape.
3. He scraped the potatoes before frying.
4. She is scraping the path clear of snow.
5. She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCRAPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scrape
 v.  gather something together over time; scratch repeatedly
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  Don't scrape the plate, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  If we could scrape up half a dozen we might give a real play with a small cast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
4  Grandmother told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to clean the carcass inside, to trim it and wash it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  There were men to cut it, and men to split it, and men to gut it and scrape it clean inside.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  They at length said, that they had learned I had been in a "scrape," and that I was to be examined before my master; and if their information proved false, I should not be hurt.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  So, have good courage, friend George; this isn't the first ugly scrape that I've been in with thy people, said Phineas, as he closed the door.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  He made several efforts to creep out of his scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  This time it's for the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they helped her out of the other night.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
12  Your pig may get you into a scrape.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANS IN LUCK
13  Good man,' cried he, 'pray get me out of this scrape.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANS IN LUCK
14  He did appear much disturbed when he read the letter that had brought me into this scrape.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
15  Perhaps I am; but one thing I have resolved on, and that is, to stop at nothing to restore a poor devil to liberty, who has got into this scrape solely from having served me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  They were so close together that I don't know how it was able to scrape through.
2  I'll have to scrape together some money for a sight-seeing trip.
3  If we can get a draw, we might scrape through.
4  I manage to scrape a living by selling my pictures.
5  We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
6  A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread--a whole, instead of a half, slice--with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter.
7  You have to scrape the wallpaper off before painting the wall.
8  She carefully scraped away the top layer of paint.
9  He scraped the potatoes before frying.
10  I scraped by borrowing from my relations until my next check arrived.
11  She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.
12  Emily scraped away the dead leaves to reveal the tiny shoot of a new plant.
13  In dry dock, we scraped off the incrustation of dirt and barnacles that covered the hull of the ship.
14  It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.
15  She is scraping the path clear of snow.