SCRAPING in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for SCRAPING, such as:

1. He scraped the potatoes before frying.
2. She is scraping the path clear of snow.
3. She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.
4. There was a scraping noise on the back porch.
5. All that bowing and scraping did not impress him.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCRAPING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scraping
 n.  deep bow with the foot drawn backwards
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  'You must excuse it,' he added, turning to Arkady, and scraping with his foot; 'you understand, a woman's weakness; and well, a mother's heart.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  And Vassily Ivanovitch went bustling forward, scraping and flapping with his slippers trodden down at heel.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  And I, of course, shall be panic-stricken as usual, I shall begin bowing and scraping before her and pulling my dressing-gown round me, I shall begin smiling, telling lies.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
4  came the sounds of animated feminine voices, interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and the scraping of chairs.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
5  Their chairs made a scraping noise as the gentlemen who had conferred rose with apparent relief, and began walking up and down, arm in arm, to stretch their legs and converse in couples.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
6  "Oh, she'd never leave us as long as you needed her," he returned, scraping hard at his chin.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
7  There was a scraping noise on the back porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She could hear Madame Antoine's heavy, scraping tread as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
9  "You take the first throw," said Alfred; and the brothers were soon lost in the game, and heard no more till the scraping of horses' feet was heard under the verandah.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  When I returned with the pistol the table had been cleared, and Holmes was engaged in his favourite occupation of scraping upon his violin.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
11  the writer, scraping in the dunghill for sixpenny fame.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  I had stooped and was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the colonel looking down at me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
13  Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  During the writing lesson he sat with his arms folded, listening to the slow scraping of the pens.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  He continued scraping his feet vigorously while the three women went upstairs, laughing, to the ladies' dressing-room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.
2  She is scraping the path clear of snow.
3  Patrick lifted the gate to prevent it scraping along the ground.
4  I can't bear the sound of chalk scraping on a blackboard.
5  He came down the steps with his jacket flapping and his cheeks still ruddy from the scraping of the razor.
6  He then showed us how to strip the bark from the logs in sheets, rather than just scraping it off in the usual way.
7  All that bowing and scraping did not impress him.
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  They were so close together that I don't know how it was able to scrape through.
15  I'll have to scrape together some money for a sight-seeing trip.