How To Use Scrappy In A Sentence

The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition.
The possibility that this scrappy specimen has also undergone very significant deformation should be considered.
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.
I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.
The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.

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Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
The second half was again scrappy and Farncombe's winner came after a goalmouth scramble.
Though she and Lanthe had no battle sorcery, they both were scrappy and had become fair swordswomen. Kiss of a Demon King
Still in control their concentration wavered to the point that the game became scrappy and disjointed.
But unlike the scrappy miners who used picks and shovels to chisel away at the massive, underground pocket of silver and gold known as the Comstock Lode, the company's plans are for open pit mining. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition.
Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere. Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
The stage is lusterless, the direction inert, the action scrappy, and every invitation for theatrical excitement turned aside.
Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football.
The worst part was that she felt bad for Jake. The scrappy redhead, despite his size, had bettered the Cooper boy in the few moments of the tussle.
I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.
Also, it seems that every description of him is legally obliged to include the word scrappy at least once, so there you go. MVN
What she knew about China then was limited to the Great Wall and some scrappy information learned from school textbooks.
They didn't see it was a struggle they must lose in the end, and so for twenty-five years the scrappy, unorganised warfare had smouldered on, with every now and then a real dust-up to stoke the growing hatred and mistrust on both sides. Isabelle
Finding a potential meal ticket in scrappy female fighter Katherine Parker (ably played by Rebecca Neuenswander), Dublin manages to persuade her to allow him to “manage” her career. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The garden was empty apart from a few scrappy shrubs.
The destruction of the old regime has triggered scrappy battles for power and influence, as chancers, coalitions and militias move into the vacuum left by the war.
It arrived in scrappy circumstances, Hooper scoring from close-range after a Georgios Samaras header landed in his path. Gary Hooper seals last-minute win for Celtic over Dundee United
It was a scrappy, rambling speech.
The fold is off-centre giving it a scrappy, unfinished look at odds with the design's refinement.
The wide-girthed tree crowns our modest backyard, an earth-bound shelter for suburban fauna, scrappy squirrels, tooth ... Charlotte Safavi: Handling Death with Kid Gloves
The next is Apple's perpetual role as scrappy underdog - reporters love cheerleading for the underdog without ever pausing to explore why it isn't the overdog.
He said the marking on some papers was ‘scrappy’ and the inconsistent results made it more difficult to place pupils in appropriate sets for next term.
Kilmarnock fared little better as the match descended into a scrappy affair of bad passing, close marking and bloodthirsty challenges.
He added: ‘The conditions made it tremendously difficult, and it became a scrappy game, but we had a stickability and came through in the end.’
This was a scrappy affair that came to life after the half - time cuppas.
The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.
These cats were scrappy old toms and they'd long since cleared out the competition of other cats, but they were friends themselves.
The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government.
Jimmy sees himself as a feisty, scrappy, still up for it, 75-year-old bastard.
This was a scrappy game with countless basic mistakes.
It's just mind-blowing to see how, in just a few short months, Haward has gone from a scrappy, youthful student to a professional, transformed young man -- you can see it in his clothes, his books, his confidence, his articulateness. Kushal Chakrabarti: Haward: Before, After and Paying It Forward
The wide-girthed tree crowns our modest backyard, an earth-bound shelter for suburban fauna, scrappy squirrels, toothsome chipmunks and commonplace feathered friends. Charlotte Safavi: Handling Death with Kid Gloves
This is a lean, scrappy, pit-bull of an album.
For me it's been plain scrappy stubbornness, not necessarily talent or self-confidence, that pushes me forward. GAR HAYWOOD, HERE...
So how do Hillary Clinton supporters feel about the so-called scrappy kid from Scranton getting the ticket? CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2008
The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
And Fox, as a network, has always been about that identity of the sort of scrappy, underdog kind of countercultural kind of figure. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010
The result was a rather scrappy, disjointed affair, where space in midfield was at a premium.
Only in a bruising period of the second half, when the game turned scrappy, did Hibs lose their composure and control.
A male opponent small enough for Diana to handle would have to be a scrappy waif of a flyweight.
A scrappy move in a disjointed first half gave the home side their best chance of the half.
The garden was empty apart from a few scrappy shrubs.
These cats were scrappy old toms and they'd long since cleared out the competition of other cats, but they were friends themselves.
The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government.
a scrappy admiral
It was a very scrappy affair due to both teams being guilty of slowing down the ball at the ruck, an offence that the referee did not penalise often enough.
But the trouble is that referees don't like his style - he is scrappy and sometimes untidy, and is not a puncher.
The Pillow, in Massachusetts, was known for its family feeling and sometimes scrappy eclecticism.
It makes a scrappy piece slightly scrappier. Times, Sunday Times
There was plenty of effort from both teams but overall this was a scrappy match and too many stoppages prevented either side from establishing any sort of pattern.
Speeches and letters survive entire, though the other fragments are scrappy.
Mirroring the South Side's rough-and-tumble image, the team consists mostly of scrappy, low-priced, no-name players.
The game began to descend into a scrappy affair with play the balls getting messy and players getting confrontational.
However, there was nothing scrappy about the wonderfully executed goal that finally broke the deadlock at a critical juncture.
And I know from personal researches military records range from the encyclopaedic, to the scrappy, to the incomplete, to the absolutely baffling. ARTHUR REX CRANE
Even in the scrappy draw with Everton last Monday, there were signs that it has given them a bit of their old zip, and they will approach this afternoon in good spirits.
York City summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick kicked upstairs when her boss ships out takes on a new case that would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets. Too Darn Hot by Sandra Scoppettone: Book summary
The note was written on a scrappy bit of paper.
The match, which was put into severe doubt the previous day with a covering of snow and slush on the pitch, inevitably turned out to be quite scrappy due to the slippery surface.
A pair has made a scrappy, twiggy nest around six metres from the ground in one of Williams' pine trees.
The second half was again scrappy and Farncombe's winner came after a goalmouth scramble.
A derby match is seldom a pretty affair, with so much at stake games become scrappy.
So it's a meaningless mismatch punctuated by spite, scrappy goals, cards and, with the exception of the peerless Pires, no flair.
Ronnie O'Sullivan breaks to get the final underway but the opening frame proves a scrappy affair lasting half-an-hour.
BOLTON (England): Dimitar Berbatov's last-minute winner sent Manchester United top of the Premier League table with a scrappy 1-0 win at Bolton on Saturday. The Times Of India Sports
And since that day he had been thankful for the amorphous scrappy scattering of foundationless shacks and bungalows. Kangaroo
The game was strongly contested all through, two totally committed teams going for every ball with intent and this led to a degree of scrappy, stop-start hurling.
His spent his off season shipping of the slugger for the scrappy but slumpy speedster.
Nottingham Contemporary, to 11 MarRobert ClarkDavid Shrigley has achieved world fame thanks to his blackly funny greetings cards, skewering mankind's follies with scrappy felt-tipped cartoons. This week's new exhibitions
The scrappy and disjointed play continued after the restart as the Reivers pack began to exert more and more pressure, and began to control events.
They like scrappy players and are willing to put up with temperament that goes along with it.
The big Canadian cut inside and, with a typically scrappy attempt, sent a deflected shot spinning wide of the left-hand post.
Small and scrappy institutions will fold.
The last ten minutes was a scrappy, even bad-tempered, affair, which offered little in the way of pretty football.
Whether this is the legacy of some deep, culturally engrained identification with the underdog–scrappy Tom Paine and Paul Revere against that bully King George, perhaps–or merely cynical manipulation, even the demonstrably unoppressed and unpersecuted find it congenial to position themselves as victims. Battle Weary
The first-half descended into a scrappy affair with bookings for Cork's Alan Carey and Derry's Paddy McLaughlin for misjudged tackles while Darren Kelly was carded by referee Dick O'Hanlon for throwing the ball away after Cork were awarded a throw-in.
Before the internet arrived to form the perfect delivery mechanism for mystical bluster, it was left to partwork magazines to provide a fix of 'otherness', made 'real' by the paucity of information and the scrappy, fragmentary way it was presented ( Things magazine
To be fair, the resulting record didn't even have a sniff of desperation around it, but it remained a scrappy work from perhaps the one band most people considered to be absolutely bulletproof.
The press remains scrappy and defiant, but its skepticism about lawyers has been embraced by the mainstream.
Grayson is a scrappy, ballsy, street fighting man, and I'd be afraid if I ever got on his bad side. Christopher Sprinkle: Alan Grayson Is a Street Fighting Man
With each check — they were coming now in scrappy but frequent maternal rushes — Simon poked a finger in my eye. What Happened to the Baby?
The material is subject to some wildly scrappy editing, with incidental characters brought in and summarily dropped.
Scrappy woofs and Harry thinks that mean's no, so I tell him it means yes.
Now, India's scrappy generics industry is hoping for a bigger conquest.
‘Scrappy,’ said Selma, ‘if you want to go challenge God to a throwdown, you can be my guest.’
It pretty much follows the same formula – the French government’s gone all wrong and it takes two scrappy hunks from the wrong side of the tracks to flex some sense into it. Fantastic Fest – District 13: Ultimatum « Geek Related
Fortunately, the gritty, plucky, scrappy, gutty scrapgutter is one of the subjects of the ever-awesome Hockey Diaries documentary series, which meant producer Gemma Hooley spent some time chatting with Hendricks about the deal. Matt Hendricks on signing his contract
Andy Keogh admitted Wolves 'win over Crystal Palace was' scrappy '- as he dubbed his team-mates' the Red Arrows 'for the way they stream forward. Express & Star
He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are.
The scrappy Scandinavians spend most of August celebrating their triumphant return with elaborate parties complete with funny hats, traditional songs, copious amounts of aquavit and, of course, cartloads of crayfish.
WINNING EVERY DRAW Kris Draper has some of hockey's quickest hands Mr. Draper, 36, a redheaded Red Wing with a leprechaun's grin, has used his fast feet and scrappy style to establish himself as one of the NHL's peskiest and most effective defensive forwards. The Face-Off Artist
The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
Produced by Grammy-Award winning Jacquire King (Modest Mouse, Kings Of Leon, Tom Waits, Sea Wolf) and Brian Carter, 'Some Kind Of Salvation' weaves a sound that can losely be described as a bulging mix of scrappy white-boy soul. Undercover Music News
The match, which was put into severe doubt the previous day with a covering of snow and slush on the pitch, inevitably turned out to be quite scrappy due to the slippery surface.
Photocopies of handwritten notes look scrappy and tend not to be valued.
As men of inherited wealth, the prime minister and chancellor cannot imagine the scrappy rage of the self-made entrepreneur drowning in red tape, suggests a Tory MP.
Despite Ruth's goal, however, play continued to be scrappy with few scoring chances created at either end.
It's lovely to have magnificent old trees in the garden - jacarandas, gums, poincianas - but sometimes the ground beneath them becomes a wasteland of scrappy grass, roots and weeds.
Samples and drum loops provide the beat while scrappy guitars and synths get the crowd jumping to the feminist/pro-gay lyrics.
It was scrappy and messy but ultimately triumphant as York City Knights progressed to the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.
I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin, $23.95) has a low-key, indie-movie vibe, with Stella sounding like Juno's older, world-weary aunt and demonstrating perhaps the most complete lack of dogginess since Scrappy-Doo. Five new books about dogs
While it may have been a scrappy game, this performance was not riddled with the disappointment of the display at Fratton Park.
In 1920s New York City, Professor Ernest Baxter, an expert in all things arcane; Mindy Markus, a scrappy flapper; and Roscoe, a gargoyle from the Bronx, are The Night Owls. DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
His rambunctious, charismatic appeal does call to mind the scrappy sort of life force so present in American folklore.

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