How To Use Ratch In A Sentence

One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
I have also used * toothpaste* to clean the screen; if you work at it, the toothpaste abrasives will get rid of hairline scratches on the screen surface. CIS Threads #1: Interesting Threads from the TRS Model 100 Forum Messages by Phil Wheeler
Ridiculous salaries and back-scratching seems to have been the order of the day. The Sun

Scratching doesn't have to be confined to just hip-hop tracks.
The grannom, and the reaction it seems to produce in fish, can prove a head-scratcher. Times, Sunday Times
Well, I guess we can scratch that idea.
In fact, one of the things I ask the salespeople in my classes to do is to take out their business card, scratch out whatever title is on it, and write in CEO.
The verb garadjimbat (with transitive suffix - im and continuative aspect - bat) is from English scratch (and him and about) but means ` to dig. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers .. 'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
Instead of buying pre-packed munchies, involve the kids in making their snacks from scratch. The Sun
The cooperative transport in a two-dimensional system of hard balls is studied, which is underdamped and under the deterministically flashing ratchet potential.
We had to start again from scratch .
It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
The best golf of the day had been produced by the boy champion, Tim Baxter, playing off scratch.
It had over a dozen different words written on it and all were scratched out except for the last.
Fry emerged from the incident without a scratch, but the concussion of the explosion was felt some 2,000 feet away, at the starting line.
It's almost hypnotic—the scratching of the pencil on the page.
When journalists were scratching for stories, the Greens’ drug policy was all but a godsend.
Then it started on my face and some other parts of my body which you cannot scratch in public.
He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs.
Knocks and scratches will lower the value of valuable furniture.
He could hear the scratch of her pencil, and the air moving past the car.
It kinks, detaches itself from actin, unkinks, and reattaches, and thereby ratchets along the actin filament in a series of power strokes.
There'll be the devil to pay if you scratch my car!
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Assemble disassemble tables chairs with care, minimizing damage to equipment walls, including scratches, paint chippings, etc.
For Christ in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch. Archive 2007-02-01
The Hill's liberals will count it a successful session if they can scratch up a billion or so out of the defense budget, add in the money freed up if, as expected, Carter's counter-inflationary "real-wage insurance" plan is defeated, and then spread the dividends among the hardest-hit programs. The Politics of Austerity
The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs.
In fact, there is more scratching on this CD than on any I have heard in recent years.
The language is necessarily tortured in describing the 18,225 electronic scratch-ticket machines that would be apportioned according to a formula in the initiative.
And I'll bet he doesn't sit around in an undershirt, scratching himself. MR STARLIGHT
Just in the name of dignity you will need to ratchet up the effort three more points, minimum. Times, Sunday Times
If, on examination, all is found to be going on well, reimmerse the cathodes, and continue plating till they appear of a dull yellowish brown (this will occur in about four minutes), then remove them, rinse and scratch-brush them, and replace them in the bath. On Laboratory Arts
I furiously scratched out what I had just written in the notebook, and replaced it with more than just a few malicious thoughts.
The tiny, flickery viewscreen from a public matterfax at the Sont Mikaal gate station, with its scratched plastic case and the smudged dust of a dozen systems. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The editor of the local paper says he's really scratching around for stories this week.
They scratch the soil from beneath the flags, which then sink, and the consequent stench from the drains is abominable, jeopardising the health of the tenants. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
(It is a geekly penchant to do things from scratch, but then this is not always unjustified.) Planet RDF
But vets say dogs can carry bacterial and viral infections, parasites and scratch diseases. The Sun
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
A metal stylus was used for scratching characters onto a wax tablet.
Pratchett is great, no matter what, but this is my least favorite. Book Report: Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
The use of statistics to understand voting patterns only scratches the surface of the possible uses of statistical information by historians. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
I tell you what though, brother,’ said Dennis, cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head, and looking gravely at Hugh, ‘it’s worthy of notice, as a proof of the amazing equalness and dignity of our law, that it don’t make no distinction between men and women. Barnaby Rudge
Dede, if I tell you, flat and straight, that I'm going up to live on that ranch at Glen Ellen, that I ain't taking a cent with me, that I'm going to scratch for every bite I eat, and that I ain't going to play ary a card at the business game again, will you come along with me? Chapter XXII
As for material resources, some bloggers are now able to earn some scratch, but this is an effect rather than a cause of their success.
He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc. IN LOVE AND WAR
All the precious stones, except moonstone, opal and sphene, have at least the hardness of quartz, and can barely be scratched by metals, even by hard steel. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
Despite noticeable speckles, nicks and the odd scratch, the first reel of the film looks quite good with excellent contrast and sharp images.
The lines have been scratched out using a needle, on a canvas smeared with oil colours.
An unexpected sharp vibration can cause the head to crash onto the surface of the disk, gouging it like a phonograph needle can scratch a record.
She scratched out that box and ticked the third one as the more accurate.
The purpose of the referendum is to further ratchet down our interests,’ said Phillip.
I have seen a girl, perhaps not more than twenty, also lacking textbooks, exercise books, biros, seen her teach the A B C by scratching the letters in the dirt with a stick, while the sun beat down and the dust swirled. Doris Lessing - Nobel Lecture
She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
All it took was a few plays scratched out on Bowden's legal pad.
He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
I've deleted everything and re-installed DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 from scratch, all to no avail.
Also, putting these extras where they show to best advantage provided a good hedge against the financial risk of building a home from scratch.
It has a ratchet effect on people working as hard as they can, to lift the whole team up. Times, Sunday Times
Another British rider, Bradley Wiggins finished ninth in the scratch race - his first competitive outing since winning three medals in Athens.
And Father John is in the kitchens making sure that today's lunch menu is up to scratch.
A generation earlier, four uncles had gone to fight for the British Empire and also came home unscratched.
And then he did it again, leading the scratch platoon he had formed on to its objective.
Can you imagine a moggie carrying Sunday papers with all those supplements, or fetching letters without scratching them to shreds?
A large red heart with the figure of a female nude scratched on the surface, was a favourite of his fiancée and was painted shortly after he met her.
Go on, have a good scratch!
I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
Monotonic search is usually efficient in space, because the searcher does not have to construct each state's representation from scratch.
There's no need to make a song and dance about a tiny scratch on the car.
First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head.
Cotton mittens will prevent the baby from scratching his own face.
Against a background where change comes slow, the theory of a ‘black hole’ swallowing up hikes in funding has gained currency among frustrated Finance apparatchiks.
That was the same idea Albiez had in 1990 when he decided to make an electric car from scratch.
Tragic cases like these simply scratch the surface of a society that appears to be in rapid decline. The Sun
It might stop you from scratching the wrong itch. The Sun
There wasn't a scratch or a singe on any of the vehicles.
The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe. A Daughter of Eve
The chimpanzee scratches away the thin covering and inserts the twig. Cultural Anthropology
But they had been receptive to the charge only after becoming convinced by every tale of backroom vote buying and back-scratching that he was not the idealist they had thought he was. O: A Presidential Novel
She was still holding the book and just staring at it when a scratch sounded at the door.
The tower rises to a height of 179 ft but despite the head-scratching of scientists, engineers and architects the tilt is still pronounced.
Young people are scratching their heads and wondering what it all means. Times, Sunday Times
Lissie looked down at the poem she'd been scratching down.
If your child cuts or scratches his or her skin, be sure to use soap and water to clean the area because open wounds are more susceptible to warts and other infections.
Scratch beneath its surface and Croydon has much more to offer than urban blight and the odd supermodel. Times, Sunday Times
The pain that scratching causes soothes an itch—but only for a second.
Scratch resistent glass doesn't distort, amber tint, polarized is the only way to go for fishing. For Better Fly Fishing... Glass or Plastic?
To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
They scratched this on a slab of slatelike rock, with a sharp iron awl; and, reckoning the present day as about October first, agreed that every waking-time they would cross off one square. Darkness and Dawn
(AP) - Scratch unstoppable from the ways to describe Steve Slaton, Pat White and West Virginia's running game. USATODAY.com - College Football - South Florida vs. West Virginia
THE blokes had the blonde tennis player scratching her bottom. The Sun
The first study showed that birds with long bills spend proportionally more time scratching with their feet than do birds with short bills, presumably as compensation for the unwieldiness of long bills.
If this Cathedral had existed tor five centuries instead of "two decades, would it have gathered a kind of convincingness with the scratches of feet and the erosion of weather? The Quiet American
I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
But let me tell you-all that when the big strike sure does come, you-all'll do a little surface-scratchin 'and muck-raking, but danged little you-all'll have to show for it. Chapter VII
Patients with cat scratch disease are likely to own a cat aged 12 months or younger, to have been scratched or bitten by a kitten, and to have at least one kitten infested with fleas.
Yet if one scratches below the surface there is cause for concern. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever possible I cook from scratch, using fresh and organic ingredients, keeping animal fat, sugar and salt to a minimum
Perhaps a repeat of that situation would cause a scratch of the head. Times, Sunday Times
A fair number of nicks and scratches remain as well.
You may be closer to the truth than any of us will ever know ... what with the corruption and back-scratching going on among and between many of our government officials and private-interest groups. Taking Odds On A Western Wolf Hunt
She joked, reaching down to give the beast a scratch behind the ears.
Once, I heard something scuffling inside one of the forbidden rooms, as if a cat or other animal was scratching their paws over the walls.
Don't dignify his silly scratchings by calling it scholarship.
It was sounding like a scratched holodisc right now and smoke was fuming out of it's light receptor.
I'm not sure if it's the shipping, but our base was scratched pretty badly.
For that purpose, Caesar had his men build an entire fleet of biremes from scratch in less than two months.
I've got a nasty scratch on my car.
The poem is still at the Jackson Pollock stage - a mess of scratchy lines and blobs of ink on a yellow ground.
Never use abrasives on either anodized or painted surfaces as they will scratch it.
As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.
Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
That cat will scratch you with its claws.
I hope you are not going to scratch me.
The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
He went on marking things down on his clipboard, violently scratching a multitude of checks and notations onto the paper.
Scratch this weekend's home game, grab your brush, and finish that room pronto.
She had scratched because of a knee injury.
The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door.
We pay for trolleys in airports and supermarkets, and for parking we either scratch a permit, ‘pay and display’ or ‘park and ride’.
The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall.
Captain Phillips was not aboard for her last voyage in 1984, which was with a scratch crew taking her to be scrapped.
The skin must be allowed to heal to reduce the irritation that causes the scratching.
The monkey scratched about in its mate's fur for fleas.
In this case, the geography of industrial organization ratchets up a sequence of scales from local to regional to national, and ultimately to global.
We are still scratching the surface of what will become possible once we are able to build much higher resolution holographic imaging systems.
She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.
Place tissue paper between acetate sheets for storage, to prevent scratching.
The ￡10 million sun and sangria soap was set up from scratch in just six months.
We were just scratching the surface of this conundrum when Soriano grooved a 3–2 fastball over the center of the plate. In the Time of Bobby Cox
‘I look forward to it, then,’ came a soft and scratchy voice from behind.
Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts.
So instead of having to levy an extra tithe of his income, Jones will get to pocket the scratch.
scratch that remark
Lantern clocks originally ran on woven ropes, which were threaded over spikes on ratchet wheels.
Also are new scope sprites with realistic scratched and dirty lenses.
Lightly scratch the surface of each potato with a fork and sprinkle lightly with salt, if desired.
On Sunday a minor/intermediate scratch cup takes place.
Set stainless steel beads in position and apply scratch coat render at a thickness of 6/8mm.
Traveling with a nursing child can ratchet up the anxiety to unbearable levels.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence -- an intense ratcheting up of one of the group's longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters ... Boing Boing
Chickens scratched in the company of a stately, gruff-voiced, very respectable pig, rooting under a walnut tree.
Scritch, scratch, scramble, through the thorny bushes!
His face was scratched and his robe was stained with crimson.
they scratched a meager living
Dad got really mad at me for scratching the car.
There's a scratching noise and your voice is so faint. Bomber
August 5, 2008 at 4:30 am troo, bof are verree unpredicktabull, but alsew- ecksperiensed kittehs yooshullee noes haow to deel wif kidlets aka bai runnin awai ore skratchin onlee hard enuff to make tehm let go. Babysitting… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
His black shirt was torn, leaving her with a good look at his chest, filled with scratches and wounds.
The pair prove as irresistible to each other as an itch to a scratch. Times, Sunday Times
It's strange that 70s feminists came to use the term "matriarchy" as synonymous with "rule by women" as the Nurse Ratched character might symbolize. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
They crouch on the scratch line, wait for starting gun to ring only, begin intense contend.
Klein, a corporate lawyer and political apparatchik, is here to spruik the virtues of Gillard's wacky plan to publish a rating system for schools. Aussies to Klein: Political Apparatchik, Go Home
While I would normally try to do all of this from scratch, sometimes short-cutting and using a canned sauce is not only cost-effective, but also extremely time-effective. Kellan Hori: Cioppino, 2011 Edition
His production, scratching, and cuts are more fitting with the sound of the album than most of the other beats on the project.
There is a lined and padded soft roof that now has a heated, scratch-proof rear glass window.
The dog scratched and padded around the place and pushed his dish across the kitchen floor tiles, but otherwise it was so quiet you could hear the wind soughing in the firs.
“She fought like a hellcat, she bit and scratched and kicked,” the driver said. Devil Dog
Garvin had scratch marks on the side of her face.
I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. Terry Pratchett
'I believe she'd fratch if she didna see tha,' he said at last. The History of David Grieve
Its huge feet and long legs kept up with her easily, its clawed hands were stretched out ready to grab her, scratching against the walls, making a spine shilling noise.
Photography became the snapshot and photo album; newspapers became fuel for fanzines, and the vinyl record became a tool for scratching and sampling.
The fluke, a flatfish similar to flounder, scratched that special itch for me.
This exhibition of what is essentially downtown art—physically and intellectually scratchy—in Knoedler's tweedily uptown space should put a happy end to that question for a while. Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay
There's a scratching noise and your voice is so faint. Bomber
The German was branded a cheat and scratched from that year's drivers' championship for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This is especially true if the group starts from scratch with no designated roles or previous experience of working together.
Very stuffy nose + scratchy raw throat + epiglottal snot goblins. Odin's Day
Along with making riding tack from scratch, he also mends pieces and fits his work to the horse.
He's now employed mainly for... "Maartens scratched his greasy hair as he struggled to find the word he wanted, ` strong-arm business. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
That, of course, would increase the odds that the gambling industry will emerge from the federal study without a scratch.
He was scratched from the lineup yesterday and was walking stiffly as the result of having his neck and back taped up.
It wasn't a tickle or a scratch, and it didn't sting or irritate.
As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press.
Royal Flora Ratchaphruek, was named after the tree, which is most often called dok khuen or ratchaphruek in Thailand. Find Me A Cure
But when the Minister scratches a bit of an itch, whammo, she is prepared to dump all over them.
Almost scratchless except very minor scratches at the umd ring Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
The demands put on them are ratcheted up at regular intervals and competition and rivalry for internal empires is encouraged. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
If your composition involves scratching and sampling, all to the good.
You're scratching for things to do outside of the actual working part of the day.
The camera lens and flash are also covered by glass to prevent unnecessary scratching of the lens.
A metal-polymer coating can heal its own scratches by liquefying when exposed to UV and then resolidifying.
She saw him park and then she scraped her key along the side of his car, scratching the paint.
Sometimes they cross their legs, put their hands on their laps, scratch their heads, and so forth in what has been termed interactional synchrony. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
He scratches and gouges with abandon in the fluent paint.
And where are the political thinkers, as opposed to the apparatchiks?
Later, as they lay wrapped in scratchy sheets, her eyes flashing a very ordinary hazel and she cackled, “I have an idea.” 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But scratch the surface and it was hardly a ringing endorsement. Times, Sunday Times
Seemingly insignificant scratches in glass may cause cracking and breakage while processing jars in a canner.
I have seen a girl – perhaps not more than 20, also lacking textbooks, exercise books, biros – teach the ABC by scratching the letters in the dirt with a stick, while the sun beat down and the dust swirled. Doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Uhh, how am I "dead wrong" because of the proposed brownian ratchet model? Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?

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