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scrape up

VERB
  1. gather (money or other resources) together over time
    they scratched a meager living
    She had scraped together enough money for college

How To Use scrape up In A Sentence

  • They could hardly scrape up enough money for the train fare.
  • The drone of an outboard motor reverberated through a flooded woods outside, then they heard the aluminum bottom of a boat scrape up on land, and a moment later Legion Guidry came through the front door, a cage trap dripping with bluepoint crabs suspended from his fist. Jolie Blon’s Bounce
  • Add the onions, carrots, and celery, seasoned lightly with freshly ground black pepper, and cook until the onions are translucent, being sure to scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot as you cook the vegetables. Archive 2009-02-01
  • A 'nark' is an informer, a spy among criminals who sells the police whatever information he can scrape up. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
  • I am excited for the New Super Mario Bros. because it will give me something fun to play with my girlfriend, and unexcited about The Last Guardian because I will finally have to scrape up funds for a PS3. No Winners, No Losers
  • Other factory farms scrape up manure from chicken houses and pigpens, adding it directly to chicken feed.
  • Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of the stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder.
  • Oh, how I hate how those pesky hangers scrape up my wooden closet rod.
  • Who is willing to take whose the bearing transact below old scrape up ah.
  • 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.
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