How To Use Scrape up In A Sentence
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They could hardly scrape up enough money for the train fare.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Other factory farms scrape up manure from chicken houses and pigpens, adding it directly to chicken feed.
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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.
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Oh, how I hate how those pesky hangers scrape up my wooden closet rod.
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Who is willing to take whose the bearing transact below old scrape up ah.
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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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Belatedly recalling her bereaved state, she let out a sharp, unconvincing yelp of woe and stooped to scrape up a handful of dust, which she poured haphazardly over her head.
The Mummy Case
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And there are you, perverting Nature in lying landscapes, filched from old rusty Titians, such as I can scrape up here to send you, with an additament from Shropshire Nature thrown in to make the whole look unnatural.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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He knew how hard it was for some employees to scrape up a down payment.
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He played little before this season but is the type of player who can scrape up several extra possessions by diving for loose balls and picking up stray rebounds.
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I would very much like to pair this dress with a pseudo-Victorian choker and/or hairpiece -- something in silver (or silvertone) and pearls (but heaven knows if I'll find something I like, or if I'll be able to scrape up the dough for it if I do).
January 18th, 2006
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I was listening to a farmer on the radio who said: ‘We don't just scrape up diseased sheep offal and feed it to cows.’
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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.
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