How To Use Scraping In A Sentence

Heavy double doors closed with amplified loud scraping before a final crash as they came together and locked.
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.
There's still the bathroom to go - which requires some serious scraping to get rid of old peeling paint.
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
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.

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Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
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.
There have been skyscraping highs and crushing, debilitating lows. The Sun
Successfully managed to crash the car by scraping the side along some concrete bollards.
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.
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
It's the mainland's most skyscraping peak, though still just a one-day hike. Times, Sunday Times
Notice the cheese scrapings on top of the bread.
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:
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
And it got to the point where I was working two jobs at a time and we were still just barely scraping by.
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 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.
Several vendors have released products introducing the concept of a mid-tier application server to the screen-scraping market.
A full profile was obtained on the scrapings from his right hand, which included cellular material such as skin.
If his nibs happens to be a regular patron, increase the aforementioned bowing and scraping a hundredfold.
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
Skin scraping, biopsy, or culture may be indicated if skin lesions are present.
She is scraping the path clear of snow.
He could hear something scraping against the rough walls.
A forensics team has discovered fresh soda residue, as well as aluminum scrapings, indicating that cans are still being crushed in the airlocks.
they collected blood scrapings for analysis
He's always down there polishing the brass, scraping and varnishing and swabbing it out. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
I kicked them off and carried them, running barefooted down the road, not even noticing when my feet began to bleed from the rough road scraping them.
Two doors lay open before him and he passed through, great, bristly shoulders scraping gilt veneer from the posterns. The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
He was 26, scraping a living as a private tutor, and came to call with his dashing friend Edward Irving, who had once been Jane's teacher.
For the diagnosis of scabies, skin scrapings have high specificity but low sensitivity.
This is done by scraping the lesion with the edge of a rounded scalpel blade or the edge of a glass slide.
We obtained laminaria from the obstetric unit and examined scrapings by routine processing.
Elvin," said he, in a cautious whisper, with his accustomed gesture of scraping his cheek, "I've got suthin 'to say to ye. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
Still looking away, she stood up, scraping her stool along the tile floor.
I later discover that chilled Greek salad and warm pan gravy with scrapings marry quite well.
The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin. The Ancient Olympics (1996)
Patrick lifted the gate to prevent it scraping along the ground.
(Gr. [Greek: kissos], ivy), biconvex; xystroidal or sistroidal (Gr. [Greek: xystris], a tool for scraping), concavo-convex; amphicoelic Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Chemicals: Used in machines chemicals replace direct manual energy such as wiping, scrubbing and scraping with chemical energy.
But in its modern 'versioning' we must surely feel serious things scraping our modern sensibilities. Times, Sunday Times
A handful of components, scraping iron ore from a planetesimal. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » 2010 » March
He had fallen headlong out of the car door, skidding and scraping his head along the concrete as he went.
The tadpoles used in this experiment feed primarily on periphyton by scraping the surfaces of tank walls and leaves.
We can hear footsteps above and the scraping sounds of our crates and cases being dragged across the floorboards.
There are scrapings on stones, the clack of sticks.
The next step is to remove any loose or flaking paint that may be present near the joint by scraping or sanding.
Somebody will make money, but then again somebody will make money by scraping Helvetia and building snout houses. 100 pages of poppycock (Jack Bog's Blog)
Suspected scabies may be confirmed by microscopic identification of the mite or its feces in skin scrapings.
In this instance (Spammer re-posts captcha on porn site in near real time, unwitting user enters it, transmits back to the actual site) the only thing automated is the process of scraping the captcha, posting it, and transmitting the answer. Breaking Google Captchas for Some Extra Cash - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
About halfway up I lost my footing and fell a few feet down, scraping my hands on the rough sand, and lose rocks.
Its most noteworthy aspect is its jaws, used for scraping the algae and bacteria it feeds on from moss.
The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening. Yama: the pit
Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
A hair-raising screech from the sound of metal scraping metal sent shivers through me.
Given the exorbitant cost of authentic civet scrapings nowadays, Civet absolute is often formulated from civetone, a synthetic alternative.
A fingernail scraping of ambergris dissolved in water, then added to the sauce, is credited with aphrodisiacal powers - which might help explain its price of ninety dollars per ounce.
But when the contractors began scraping the surface of the ground to renew the track, one of the machines caught against the main.
I was quite alarmed to feel the foils scraping the sand halfway across even at high water, so as I didn't want to get neaped, I retraced my route back to Walney where I decided to dry out for the night.
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
We heard the tables being broken down, then the dragging and scraping of the trestles against the stone floor.
Add the sugar, flour, semolina, salt, and the remaining olive oil in several stages, scraping down the sides of the bowl between each addition.
Add the cider, scraping up any brown bits from the pan. Roast pork loin stuffed with apples: Lomo de puerco con manzanas
Under the one parent family payment, people are still scraping by financially.
I stopped a few cars ahead and as I reversed I heard this grinding noise, which I thought was the gears but in fact I was scraping the side of the parked cars.
I folded my arms over my chest and looked down, scraping my foot against the pavement in a circular motion.
This week I'm staying out of the kitchen because I spent most of last week there, scraping the remains of the geometric patterned avocado green carpet off of the linoleum tiles underneath.
There, the sight of techies tapping out messages on the BlackBerry was as common as snowplows scraping Chicago streets after a storm.
Nothing therefore could be done but to cut loose the fastenings that yet bound them to the frame they had so vainly put their trust in; and scraping a deep hole in the sand, the remains were thus inhumed together. Ralph Rashleigh
Sathorn Road is now packed with skyscraping buildings.
Traditional remedies of freezing and scraping or pressure washing can damage surfaces and grouting which in turn can cause flooding.
`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
The brown-haired man stood, scraping the chair back, and held his hand out to her across the desk.
Here, under the skyscraping cliffs, grey seals have been busy hauling themselves ashore to pup. Times, Sunday Times
We bought this place by scraping the money together, borrowing and scrabbling about.
A stiff north-westerly wind blew bracingly in from the grey and ochre ocean, soughing noisily through a field of high green corn stalks, bending the inland ash and thorn and willow, scraping the short turf and the bare headlands. Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
Abrasion: (this is also known as corrasion) - this is where rock fragments are hurled at cliffs by breaking waves, gradually scraping away at the cliff face; the load acts as a grinding tool. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
It is very true, said the blind man, that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants I whiles make a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds. Wandering Willie’s Tale
The goats forage, trample, and create wallows, scraping away surface material and accelerating soil erosion.
For the vanilla bavarois, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the milk and vanilla bean scrapings to a boil.
The larva probably possessed the scraping mouth parts and the branchial filter seen in most extant anuran larvae, and likewise probably also pumped water rhythmically.
Josephine nodded in my direction and I heard the sound of a chair scraping against the wooden floor.
He broke into a run, tripping over things and scraping the skin from his hands and knees.
I stayed at her side as we threaded our way through the room, accompanied by the sound of furniture scraping on the floor as patrons shied away from me.
‘Roit,’ said Ladder Man, scraping a hanky over his face to wipe the sweat out of his eyes, ‘you know the lot at number 8?’
The children were scraping the snow into snowballs and throwing them playfully.
Brittney and I woke up to the sound of scraping and movement against the house.
He withdrew a scraping tool from his desk, and carefully aligned it with the lines of the ledger around that entry and then proceeded to scrape off the writing and lines in that entry.
She was woken by the crackle of her coach's wheels scraping on the cobbled road.
This procedure meant cutting directly into the back of the knee, tying the damaged artery above and below the aneurysm and scraping out the blood-filled sac.
Therefore, the installation when scraping knife , you want to make sure that the strickle blade pressure.
The Japs are a wonderful race; they seem to be the happiest people going, always smiling and good-natured, always polite and gentle, always bowing and scraping. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Next day little boys were scraping the village over like fowls in a farmyard, getting a chip 'ere an' a shaving there, an 'making themselves such a nuisance that there was talk of calling the gendarmerie out. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20
She is scraping the path clear of snow.
Although a skilled sailmaker, he was now scraping by working in a park and living in a caravan.
But that afternoon an army of more than 50 men began scraping the snow and ice into heaps that were removed in wheel-barrows, handcarts and small wagons and dumped on the track bordering the pitch.
The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass.
The scrapings are placed directly on a microscope slide and viewed under magnification for the presence of characteristic Sarcoptes scabiei mite's eggs or faecal pellets.
Jail got into the music school by scraping through the examination.
Visually, this skyscraping sci-fi city/state may look like a cross between Le Corbusier's Brasilia, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and a cleaned-up Manhattan, but its foundations are firmly rooted in Chinese beliefs.
There was a scraping noise, as of something massive and heavy being dragged.
She grew up poor and has spent most of her adult life scraping by on a disability pension.
The Assiniboin made a dish of buffalo blood boiled with brains, rosebuds, and hide scrapings.
In fact, the house was repainted last month, and the only part that needed significant scraping and sanding were the sills and trim, which were made of natural wood.
She plays Jade, a spunky 20-year-old scraping by as a freelance photographer.
I sat at the kitchen table, scraping off some dried up stuff on the glass surface with my fingernail.
A specimen obtained from scrapings of the woman's hand was prepared and examined with the use of a scanning electron microscope.
Those living along the Genale River which borders Afder have turned to the palm trees for food, scraping sustenance from the dark brown seeds with their teeth.
It is an image for all time: tiny figure beneath a sky-scraping mast, Tower Bridge open to salute her, left arm hooked around the forestay with the greatest nonchalance, and right arm raised, fist clenched.
Test stool sample and scrapings to identify amoebic, bacterial, fungal or other parasitic problems.
Hosting feeds costs money, scraping feeds takes time, and maintaining a feed can take some time as well.
Deker swung the wheel, scraping the nearside fender against the metal rail so that sparks flew. THE PROMISED WAR
He spent the next two years scraping and clawing his way back into the black.
A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Scraping together the money to put diesel in the horsebox is more of a concern than booking flights and transport to the Breeders' Cup in America. Breeders' Cup 2011: Nahrain can keep Roger Varian's great season going
This was a man who never sat while he ate – the farmboy ran too deep inside his chalky Minnesota belly — but watching him sweat like some Haute Fromagier over a bonded slab of Parmesan in an East-Side Trattoria, scraping the sands of brown sugar onto a paper plate, then surgically distributing his treasure perfectly equally over ever parsec of Cracker Soup Surface Area, made me love him even more. Today’s Guest Editor: Christopher! : Scrubbles.net
But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures. Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Then, having drawn the grotesques, with such divisions as he desired, on some cartoons, he dusted them over the intonaco, and proceeded to scratch it with an iron tool, in such a way that his designs were traced over the whole façade by that tool; after which, scraping away the white from the grounds of the grotesques, he went on to shade them or to hatch a good design upon them with the same iron tool. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
Their voices carried clearly under the immense dome of the rotunda, and the scraping of chairs as they sat down would have pushed the needle of an audiometer into the high sector. Quiller Meridian
He had fallen headlong out of the car door, skidding and scraping his head along the concrete as he went.
As they floated after Tally, scraping past girders and jagged chunks of concrete, Aya and Frizz collected scratches like they were crawling through a thornbush. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
I could only imagine scraping the maggots from the inside of the furs in warmer weather. A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
Grace, a mousy wallflower of a girl who had remained quiet until now, is pointing towards the window, where the curtains are now billowing in the wind and the tree branches are scraping against the glass.
Although surrounded by a demolition site, skyscraping cranes and dozens of builders, a hospital is running as normal.
Unions were bargaining for dental insurance, as if scraping the barrel to come up with new benefits.
Therefore, the installation when scraping knife , you want to make sure that the strickle blade pressure.
By the time the last rows have done their scraping, the beak is completely closed, leaving the algae trimmings to be sucked in during the next chomp.
`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
These have full-spectrum spyware capability including keylogging, screenscraping, monitor email and Instant Messaging, web surfing activity, file access and webcam.
He was scraping the dirt off of the hoof of a horse.
He was at that age of a conversible temper, and insatiably curious in the aspects of life; and he spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of man — and woman-kind. Lay Morals
It also signifies the start of summer and with it thousands of grill masters begin their annual ritual of scraping and cleaning the backyard barbeque.
Kane then led a wandering life, scraping a living by housepainting and carpentry.
Diagnostic tests may include skin scrapings, hair combings, a dermatophyte culture, blood work, and skin biopsies.
Suddenly she heard the sound of chains scraping as they descended the stairs, accompanied by the heavy footsteps of the goblins.
During courtship, the male displays for the female by scraping a nest and bowing next to the female while flashing the white on his tail.
Silently, she waited until she heard her cue: the soft scraping of the window and the soft air pop sound of the gun firing.
Nothing is so satisfying as to lean ruminatingly against a fence and observe the slow, rhythmic swing of the digger's back or hear the repeated scraping of the shovel-edge against some buried rock. Love Conquers All
Skin scrapings obtained from the leading edge of the burrow and under the fingernails are most likely to produce a mite.
Arin peeped through his fingers and then stood up with his jaw almost scraping his knees.
The three-minute whistle and subsequent mad scraping of chairs made me think more of PE than physical intimacy.
She was still lying in the back of the lorry cab listening to the rain falling on the roof, the engine rumbling on below and the windscreen wipers scraping against the glass at the front.
He got up from the table, his chair legs scraping against the ground when he pushed it back.
Add drained sauerkraut and stir well, scraping browned bits from bottom of pan.
Most adults who have warts often turn to one of four treatment options: salicylic acid (an over-the-counter medication); cryotherapy (freezing warts with the use of liquid nitrogen); podophyllum (a caustic drug that must be prescribed by a doctor); and surgical scraping. Resolving Moles and Warts Permanently the Natural Way
It was clear that the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians.
Walters Art Museum/Owner of The Archimedes Palimpsest This 13th-century prayer book was made by scraping the original text off the parchment paper, removing the binding, rotating the pages 90 degrees and rebinding the pages in book form. Reading Beneath the Lines
A sound emanated from the stream, the rough, dry scraping of scales over rock.
The procedure, known as an endarterectomy, involves cutting open the neck artery and scraping out plaque formations that can block blood flow. The Seattle Times
It was so windy that the branches were scraping against the window panes.
Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour, buttermilk, vanilla, and coffee in three stages, scraping down the sides of the bowl between each addition.
The only sound is that of knives and forks scraping against china.
During the previous night, however, the sky had cleared, and now the air was filled with those familiar brumal sounds, the scraping of shovels and the ringing of sleighbells, that usually make such a pleasant appeal to those within-doors; but the bishop was merely moved to impatient longing for the spring. The Mayor of Warwick
There is a perception that men have this proclivity to shine when it comes to break-dancing, and the women doing it are just scraping by.
Scraping away patiently in soil with their fingers, the team of scientists discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization.
Iron filings and gritty sulphur palled over the city, every breath scraping his lungs. THE OPEN DOOR
Everything was eerily quiet, the sound of cutlery clattering against a plate and the scraping of chairs abnormally loud in the silence.
I had neglected to take those little vials and bottles with their nether region innard scrapings to the lab. In Which My Dignity – Such As It Were – Finally Plummets Headlong Into The Abyss | Her Bad Mother
I reach it eventually and crawl inside, scraping myself in various places as I did so.
This type of scraping biopsy can be uncomfortable but not painful so no anaesthetic is required.
The only sounds filling the room was the soft scraping of his knife and fork across his serving dish and the tick of a mahogany clock atop a mantel.
The timing chain or belt can slap against the cover , producing a thumping or scraping sound.
Scraping together $2 is easier, like buying a single cigarette—a loosie—for $1 instead of a pack for $9 or more.
The children always loved scraping out the bowl in which we had mixed the cake.
There was a low scraping sound as the keel of the vessel started the drag against the sandy bottom.
Hall Haddo, 'says he, sub voce Peden,' or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly to be called, a pokeful of old condemned errors and the filthy vile lusts of the flesh, a published whore-monger, a common gross drunkard, continually and godlessly scraping and skirling on Lay Morals
This was the golden age of steam and his first job was cleaning locomotives inside and out, which meant scraping the ashes out of the fireboxes, a hard, dusty and dirty job.
Scraping the ice off their cars, they travel along deserted roads, through the eerie, wintry stillness.
The colours and motifs of the stencilling were painstakingly and faithfully reproduced by analysis of paint scrapings taken from the walls and the scrutiny of old photographs. Irish cathedral to ban the use of secular songs in ceremonies
It ranges from rustic villages, Bedouin encampments, skyscraping cities, tumbledown temples and other ancient ruins.
the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk
Over the sizzling and scraping of cutlery on the pan, there is a note of concentration in his voice.
Speaking of money, I've put together a tentative monthly budget because I'm sick of always scraping by from paycheck to paycheck.
Mac stretched, rubbing the soft flesh of his stomach scraping dirty nails across a faded skull tattoo.
He crept a little more into the alley, his boots scraping on the abandoned cobblestones.
But that doesn't disguise the reality that they are scraping the barrel in a desperate attempt to save a dying industry.
The food system has lapsed into near self-parody — a steady stream of public-health disasters (from long-term maladies like diabetes to immediate complaints like salmonella), an exploited workforce (from enslaved Florida tomato pickers to scraping-by Wal-Mart clerks), and ecological damage writ large. School Lunches and the Anti-Tater Tot Agenda « Christopher Colaninno
Six or seven cars were damaged, with bonnets dented, sunroofs smashed and scrapings on the sides of the cars.
Because the input is actually scraping this page for the urls, as long as the format doesn't change, the pipe should stay up-to-date with this page. SF/F Writers Who Blog
There's a brief accordion intro, leading to what sounds like a kazoo lament accompanied by someone scraping a few pieces of metal and wood together.
With the family already scraping by on his income as manager of the sporting goods emporium, his brother's arrival makes things tighter in every way.
And the larks trilled unceasingly, the corncrakes called to one another, and the landrail cried as though someone were really scraping at an old iron rail. The Witch, and other stories
Patrick lifted the gate to prevent It'scraping along the ground.
There was a loud scraping as chairs were pushed back from the table.
He had X-rayed the thing thoroughly, tested it with apparatus I'd never heard of, taken scrapings from all over it for microchemical analysis, and even tried it himself on a roulette wheel. ...Or Your Money Back
The Spotted Towhee is a distinctive bird that is often heard before it is seen, scraping about in the brush.
All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood — frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit. Chapter 1
‘We're always clawing and scraping by,’ Forrest said of the centre's finances.
A friend of my father's worked for the London Transport Police and part of his job involved scraping stiffs off the tracks.
I could hear my room-mates scraping their chairs back as they quickly jumped up to follow me.
So we were reading the newspapers and scraping the barrels of our own experiences.
Scraping away patiently in soil with their fingers, the team of scientists discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization.
The surgery, called endarterectomy involves cutting open the neck artery and scraping out plaque formations that can block blood flow. FDA expands use of stroke treatment device
He's up on a ladder, scraping and puttying and wilting from the heat and doing all he can humanly do to accommodate my urgent 'nesting' demands. Hormones: a shitstorm.
Periwinkles feed blamelessly by scraping detritus and organic matter off almost bare rock.
Then he walked backwards, scraping the gravel with the side of his boot.
She felt herself being caught and held, her cheek scraping against the rough concrete as he pulled her upwards.

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