How To Use Scrap In A Sentence

  • The B-52Bs replaced the 95th's B-36s and the unit was active until 1966 when its aircraft were flown to Davis-Morithan for storage and scrapping.
  • Every time I can scrape a few quid together, I smack 'em straight into the premium bonds.
  • Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
  • I haf to light de fire, put on de kiddle, scrap some vit my vife, and get myself breakfast. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
  • As for bridges, fairground rides, aeroplanes and indeed absurdly altitudinous skyscrapers that move perceptibly in the breeze - not fine. Times, Sunday Times
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  • ‘I wish I was rich enough to use fivers as scrap paper,’ remarked Caroline.
  • Scrapie is a chronic disease of sheep which is transmitted by a filterable particle that is resistant to heat and formalin fixation.
  • So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp.
  • The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
  • Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
  • Looking for a creative way to make a meal out of leftover scraps of ham, turkey or pork roast?
  • Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
  • Liadan questions her boyfriend as she shifts the picture around the page of her scrapbook.
  • Once inside the plant, the Car Repair Shop removed the brake equipment, renumbered it and it remained in service for many more years before it was scrapped.
  • Seat offers 0% finance outside the scrappage scheme, but 8.9% with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heavy double doors closed with amplified loud scraping before a final crash as they came together and locked.
  • As the ballot result was due, the company offered to scrap Saturday working for subs and reporters as a concession.
  • Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris.
  • To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
  • He undoes the clips and straps producing a sword that looks as though it were a slab of scrap metal.
  • The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken. Media
  • The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
  • Kate Winslet, cast before she played Marianne, wears no makeup and her hair is scraped back into an unbecoming bun.
  • Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
  • Even as a child I had heard what a monadnock was - a huge lump of rock rising above rolling forests, a big hunk scraped bare but still left after the icecap had gone back.
  • Things like that John Byrne referred to as barnacles that needed scraping off when it came time to revamp Superman in the 80s. Doghouse of Solitude.
  • Once the cut has been made, scrape the inside using an old spoon to remove all the seeds and membrane attached to the sides and bottom of the gourd.
  • As the sun sets on the skyscrapers, neon lights hug the outsides of the buildings, making the skyline look as impressive at night as it does during the day.
  • What better way to capture the entire event than by scrapbooking the event into a bound book that will last for decades?
  • The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information.
  • The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition.
  • First, if the shaft of a long bone be hit above the junction of diaphysis and epiphysis, the cancellous tissue in and extending from the medullary cavity is pulverised, and examination of fragments from such fractures gives the impression of the inner aspect having been scraped clean. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
  • The inner surface can be scraped off, sliced thin and used as an inlay for jewellery items.
  • There's still the bathroom to go - which requires some serious scraping to get rid of old peeling paint.
  • Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps.
  • An scrape of whiskers or daub of toothpaste unrinsed in the bathroom sink. Ann, meet Bob
  • The Higher Education Bill scraped through the Commons at second reading by just five votes in January.
  • Slept and read, bought groceries, hot tub, finally scraping together enough energy to cook some Indian food in belated recognition of my wife's birthday. Crash and burn
  • Nosour ballouze for me s abig fan fo this game i think hey shuld end thiscrap mgswill not fit in a movie snake is dead so let the man rest inpeace Exclusive: Producer Mike De Luca Says It’s Game Over for a METAL GEAR SOLID Movie – Collider.com
  • He also knows that whoever lifts the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Bombay next month will know that they've been through a scrap to end all scraps.
  • He was making something out of a piece of scrap wood.
  • I spent an hour or two scraping and repainting, then filled the feeder with birdseed, hung it near the shed, and watched to see who would take the bait.
  • The competitive infatuation with ‘signature’ skyscrapers may continue to get the publicity, but some of the best young talents are staking their claims and reputations on the ground.
  • For some time I sat upon a bench, what she called a craft table, and waited with other scraps of this and that. Where is Love?
  • Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
  • Underneath the horizontal skyscraper is a landscaped area with a number of water features which give the impression that the building is floating on water. digg this digg this email this email this tweet this tweet this facebook this facebook this Steven Holl’s LEED Platinum Horizontal Skyscraper Completed! Vanke Center by Steven Holl – Inhabitat
  • The Spinner sliced the shards into pieces as the grenade sent the motorcycles flying in scraps of blue and yellow metal. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Shard Reaper’s Review Forum
  • Otherwise, beginning on the 15th day, Natural Source Store will automatically charge your credit card or debit card a total sum of $79.99 for the South Beach Smile Deluxe Kit, which is a 1 month supply and includes: 4 syringe applicators, retainer case for storage, tongue scraper, color shade guide and an interproximal pick, which you previously received as a trial. LAist
  • Spanish moss, hanging from low branches, occasionally scraped the top of the car.
  • I wrote two awful essays and was lucky to scrape through the exam.
  • A lorry piled with scrap metal had shed its load.
  • The charred remains of a body was discovered by scavengers searching for scrap metal yesterday morning.
  • Think a big guitar sound, bouncing bass lines, Liberal dashes of Hammond organ, skyscraping harmonies and the most soulful vocal you're ever likely to hear on this Island and you're halfway there.
  • When I make dinner now and my children barely touch a bite, I see dollar bills going in the trash as I scrape the dinner dishes after the meal.
  • The salient feature of the battery-powered boat was that it had all scrap materials.
  • More common were the homes built from pallets and scrap metal, and in some cases from empty plastic bottles.
  • The possibility that this scrappy specimen has also undergone very significant deformation should be considered.
  • Last year, Time's In Style magazine scrapped Your Look, a quarterly fashion title geared toward readers in their late teens, after two disappointing issues. US Weekly to Launch a Quarterly Spinoff
  • There have been skyscraping highs and crushing, debilitating lows. The Sun
  • Instead she was outside in the spring sunshine - chancing it amongst the skyscrapers.
  • Second, features: featured ox horn raw materials, manual fine system and become, scrapping detoxification have sanitarian effect, and no static, non-toxic side effect.
  • Part of the thrill is eluding the proctors who scan the rooftops late at night, listening for the scrape of heels.
  • Successfully managed to crash the car by scraping the side along some concrete bollards.
  • Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother.
  • His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
  • There were also a few open spaces - like steel stockyards, railway marshalling yards and scrap yards with rusting car-hulks piled high like the lobster creels on Sorbaig pier.
  • Check it every fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pot to make sure the meat is not sticking or, God forbid, scorching.
  • Their faces and garments are collaged from scraps scissored from magazines.
  • Ingrid frowned again as she buttered her roll and scraped a portion of blackcurrant jam on it. COVER STORY
  • And scrappage has been at least revenue-neutral for the Government, which cashed in on the flow of VAT paid on new cars.
  • Scrapbooks crammed with yellowed reviews overflow on to sheets the color of daffodils, a salmon satin blanket cover.
  • Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs.
  • Our quest however, soon became an odyssey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, PDF scraping and broken links.
  • ACOUSTICS – D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago’s Northwestern University for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating. Announcing the Year’s Winners of the IgNobel Prize | Impact Lab
  • Foster's will be the tallest of 60 skyscrapers to be built there in the next few years.
  • Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
  • Since the scheme began, the South Korean car maker Hyundai has been the biggest winner, compiling an order book of 8,000 UK scrappage sales.
  • Nay, was not the "Araucana," which Spain acknowledges as its epic, written without even the aid of paper; on scraps of leather, as the stout fighter and voyager snatched any moment from that wild warfare? The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
  • A few rusty bits of scrap metal are not really direct evidence of ‘weapons of mass destruction’.
  • Payment was commonly in cast-off clothes, food scraps, alcohol or opium dregs.
  • Funes says that "dollarization" and the adoption of the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2006 have had negative effects such as inflation and unfavorable competition for small-scale farmers but that it is too late to scrap these policies. CounterPunch
  • It's the mainland's most skyscraping peak, though still just a one-day hike. Times, Sunday Times
  • This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
  • Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
  • And I'd be goddamned if I was going to scrape it all up with a butter knife.
  • Notice the cheese scrapings on top of the bread.
  • Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
  • March 11, 2006, 5: 04 pm credit counseling says: credit counseling scraping accruing, Habib! boyish: possessional contrasting The Volokh Conspiracy » WASHINGTON TIMES AND WINE WARS:
  • It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell.
  • The sculpture was created from technology waste collected from Chinese scrapyards.
  • Occasional low lintels bumped and scraped his head in the blackness.
  • Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
  • The true sky-scraper is beautiful — and this is the reluctant admission of a man who dislikes humanity-festering cities. The House Beautiful
  • I scraped the stone against the blade harder, hoping to drown out her voice and signify that I didn't want to talk.
  • She would come home from school, play with her dog, then go through old scrapbooks with pictures of her family: on holiday and at weddings, and just snapshots in general.
  • I'm also hard at work on a Trog Rose midquel called Scrapheap Mary, and a big project with some likeminded publishers and magazines in my hometown, which will help us all combine resources in what we hope is a new and innovative manner. An Interview with Johanna Sinisalo
  • Is he some crackpot pseudo-scientist consigned to the scrap heap of history?
  • To build another scyscraper in the city is beside the point.
  • Scrape it onto your plate and use it to smother a dish of new potatoes - mountain food at its best.
  • REFERENCES: la pelouse (f) = grass; le gazon (m) = grass or lawn; Manou = endearment for the name Emmanuelle; for-mee-dah-bluh = formidable = great; gratter for it (Franglais) = scrape (save) or work for it Words in a French Life
  • TheMelvin: All right, well how do you personally define "scrapper"? bud_is_wiser: I'm picturing a middle infielder. Undefined
  • Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma
  • Oral health problems strongly associated with smokeless tobacco use are leukoplakia (a lesion of the soft tissue that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off) and recession of the gums .. Are adults snoozing while kids are "snusing?"
  • A fallen sword clanged and scraped across the stone. Sharpe's Rifles
  • And it got to the point where I was working two jobs at a time and we were still just barely scraping by.
  • She's scraped the skin off her elbow.
  • They played with control and flair in the first half, while the second half was imbued with indiscipline and scrappiness.
  • He made us laugh, he knocked us dead, and then there was the scrapbook, with its pages full of letters, pictures, signatures.
  • The program also encourages producers to select for resistance and to use scrapie-resistant rams in flocks that have risk factors for scrapie.
  • She told him that while cleaning out an attic she had found an old box which, among other things, contained one of Osmond's scrap books of his cuttings from 1950 to 1954 and several sketches.
  • Perhaps, Rebekah mused, she could ask for the scraps at the end of fabric bolts and make a rag rug for the cold wooden floor.
  • There was a brief pause, as neither of us said anything; the only sound was the needle of my fountain pen scraping mundanely on the rough paper.
  • there was not a scrap left
  • Revenue shortfalls during the first two and a half years of his term approached $6 billion, forcing him to cut spending and scrap some campaign promises. The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
  • She makes her sculptures out of odd pieces of scrap metal.
  • Other tools, such as scrapers, gravers, drills, and notched flakes, accounted for only 4 percent of the formal artifacts.
  • Barry, it was pleasant seeing you today in the cafeteria. Barry I saw that you purchased the chef's salad. Apparently, you did not know that the chef's salad is kitchen trickery to utilize scrap meat.
  • When you consider the fact that their are no established educational teaching standards and that local shool systems are primarily funded by local taxes I wonder why we have to ask ourselves if the test should be scrapped. Educating America: Scrap the SAT?
  • My hair was scraped back into a painfully tight and still considerably wet ponytail.
  • Can't a groover just have a burger without having to scrape eight tons of shit out of it!!
  • I managed to scrape through the exam.
  • There was a quick shuffle of feet and scraping of the wooden desks and chairs against the linoleum floor as everyone immediately situated themselves in their seats.
  • In the urban maze of narrow streets cut between the cliff-like skyscrapers below, there was mayhem.
  • Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets. How the Poor Die
  • It was sufficiently exhilarating to maintain our interest in the postlude performance of the original final movement, which Saint-Saëns scrapped on the frank advice of his mother. Steven Isserlis – review
  • April 22nd, 2010 1: 46 am ET have we forgotten what it was like to. be born black in america during the 60's and early we we're not allowed to be born in a hosp. with dr. and nurse. our births were joted down on a scrap piece of papaer with little interest to the gov. there are many blacks whose bc want pass birthers standards .. Sessions walks fine line about diversity on the Supreme Court
  • Do you really expect us to believe, as you say, that many people feel the buffer zone should be scrapped?
  • Ship hulls could be encased in rust that had to be scraped or cut off; potentially valuable copper wires had to be separated from worthless refuse.
  • Several vendors have released products introducing the concept of a mid-tier application server to the screen-scraping market.
  • I knew it would be a battle and a scrap but we have won 2-0 and I would have settled for that before the game.
  • Scraps of cloth were saved up for quilting - any sort of cotton, corduroy, knit or synthetic fabric was free.
  • A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame.
  • Our forecasts have been revised upwards slightly as ferrochrome and scrap prices continue to soar.
  • He had a what's called carotid endarterectomy where they slice out the carotid artery and scrape out the plaque. CNN Transcript May 21, 2008
  • Captain Phillips was not aboard for her last voyage in 1984, which was with a scratch crew taking her to be scrapped.
  • Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales.
  • He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
  • A full profile was obtained on the scrapings from his right hand, which included cellular material such as skin.
  • There are fears that BSE in sheep could mimic scrapie, which passes easily by horizontal infection from sheep to sheep.
  • Al was a battler and a brawler and a scrapper from the day he first stepped in as a Green Kroboth, Alan J.
  • The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso 
  • And in the FOR ME column of our imagined list, not in the treasured top slots but up there, would be the gift of Joycean spam upon a digital reemergence: boltmaker stippled scrapy heartedness burgoo overplentiful unended hydrophobous. Eveline | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
  • If his nibs happens to be a regular patron, increase the aforementioned bowing and scraping a hundredfold.
  • I stuffed the bottle with scraps of paper and tinder-dry sticks of which there was a plentiful supply.
  • Since 1997, almost 300 Quebec farmers have been ordered to destroy more than 12,000 sheep feared to be carrying the disease called scrapie.
  • He scraped out the bowl ( = removed everything from it ) with a teaspoon.
  • I see people in libraries and archives and Family History Centres, obsessed with finding traces of family in microform, in scraps of paper, officially, and sometimes arbitrarily, preserved for posterity.
  • The window frames have also been scrapped and repainted and the leaking roof of the oriel window has been repaired.
  • Phnom Penh, the capital, recently got a new fleet of metered taxis, and it soon will have its first skyscrapers, including a 42-story luxury condominium tower rising up next to an office for a national antileprosy campaign. Cambodia's Premier in Strong Position Ahead of Vote
  • Adopted from Native American tradition, the drum beats represent the slap of the female coho's tail as she scrapes out a shallow gravel nest called a redd. The Seattle Times
  • People's attitude towards the skyscrapers varies widely.
  • At the age of six, I myself wore a tallith katan, or scapular, under my shirt, only mine was a scrap of green calico print, whereas theirs are white linen.
  • So the harvest hymn find, on a scrap of liturgical scroll, was a virtual mother lode. When combined with other scroll fragments and translated by professor George J.
  • When my brother donated his bicycle to the large scrap drive, I donated our swing set to outdo him.
  • Entire villages had been reduced to tangled scrap heaps of rubble.
  • In spite of Pelican Bay's harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as "kites. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
  • After a scrappy start, both teams settled down with York producing a series of incisive moves, all of which collapsed either at the whistle of the referee or their own indiscretions.
  • The last issue had a good letter from someone who signed himself ‘Conscript’, describing how he and his comrades were forced to waste their time in polishing brass, blacking the rubber hoses on stirrup pumps with boot polish, scraping broom handles with razor blades, and so on. As I Please
  • I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.
  • It is true, there were a few scraps of putrid fish in the boat, and Tom had found a fishing-line under the bottom-boards forward, so that, having a line and the wherewithal to bait it, they might possibly succeed in catching a _few_ fish. The Voyage of the Aurora
  • The successful car scrappage scheme could be extended to inefficient household products. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is hypnotically serene – out in the great wide open, no sounds except the gentle scrape of the wooden oar on the pebbled waterbed, the occasional cry of a bird, the wind rustling through the banana trees. In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
  • The main reason that the boycott policy should be scrapped is that it won’t work and is likely to actually damage those it is intended to help – ie the Palestinians. Matthew Yglesias » Double Standard: In a Good Way!
  • Nowadays, between scraps of undulating green parkland, there are stumps of surviving Victorian tenements.
  • Bolts, nails and other metal scrap are dangerously strewn about on the bridges posing threat not only to the pedestrians but to the vehicles as well.
  • These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
  • The Government's car scrappage scheme started in chaos yesterday as some manufacturers refused to deliver new vehicles.
  • Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted. Beard
  • The first settlers from Europe, having braved the wild Atlantic for a strange and tavern-bare land, can't be faulted for slapping beer together from whatever scraps they could find. Gourd Lovin'
  • In recent months the Clyde has been a popular place to fish and most boats have always managed to scrape a fairly decent week's wages.
  • The tax was scrapped the following year because of public opposition and implementation problems.
  • Women unable to feed the bellies of hungry children, were forced to rummage through garbage, and by the grace of God, and anointed creativity, found leftovers okra, rice, tomato, a scrap of pork and a fragment of shrimp to create a meal we call gumbo. Rev. Otis Moss III: A Blue Note Gospel
  • A nurse's aide gathered his belongings together, threw out a few unimportant scraps of paper, put the rest in a plastic bag.
  • There's not a scrap of evidence to support his claim.
  • Over the next half-day, opium will seep out through these holes in the form of a milky sap that can be scraped off the side of the pod.
  • Most scrapbookers don't know what kerning or leading are and how to adjust them accordingly.
  • When scrappage ends, the shakeout will begin. Times, Sunday Times
  • The train was crowded, but I scraped in just before the door closed.
  • Helmets can mean the difference between a few cuts and scrapes and a serious head injury in two-wheeler accidents.
  • I run my town's recycling center and can attest to the sharp rise (and subsequent fall) in scrap metal prices. Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of?
  • Skin scraping, biopsy, or culture may be indicated if skin lesions are present.
  • I heard a scrape and a click, which suggested that the lock on the doors had been reinforced with a hasp and padlock. TOY SHOP
  • These infant teeth are used to scrape fatty secretions and other nourishing substances from the female's reproductive organs.
  • People believed that healing could occur through direct contact with the relics — by touching them, drinking water or wine in which they had been dipped, sleeping next to the tomb, or eating dirt scraped from the site. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • She saw him park and then she scraped her key along the side of his car, scratching the paint.
  • His aqualung scraped the bottom of the punt and he reached up, grabbed the thwart and pulled the frail craft completely over. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • So omnivorous is the Chinese appetite for imports that when the country ran short of scrap metal in early 2004, manhole covers disappeared from cities all over the world. Links for 2008-04-10 « Skid Roche
  • The first of these, published in 1846, bore the title of a featured novelette, Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag.
  • I finally scraped together enough money for a flight home.
  • Commercial bit cleaner can be used to remove pitch and tar; however, a scrap piece of wood will usually do the trick.
  • From these and other scraps came the long-accepted story of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of Britain: of raids by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from north Germany and Denmark, followed by piecemeal settlement and conquest.
  • She is scraping the path clear of snow.
  • Use a large spoon to scrape away the goop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found.
  • Scoop after scoop was scraped away, lifted, and tipped with an ear-splitting crash into a waiting dumper truck.
  • Clean the tools with soap and water and throw away all the scrap wallpaper.
  • He refers to himself as "a dinosaur" and is taunted by an old criminal rival who teases him about his impending retirement: "You're days from the scrapheap. The (Really) Long Goodbye

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