[
US
/ˈskɹætʃɪŋ/
]
[ UK /skɹˈætʃɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈætʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
a harsh noise made by scraping
the scrape of violin bows distracted her
How To Use scratching In A Sentence
- Ridiculous salaries and back-scratching seems to have been the order of the day. The Sun
- Scratching doesn't have to be confined to just hip-hop tracks.
- The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers .. 'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
- It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
- It's almost hypnotic—the scratching of the pencil on the page.
- When journalists were scratching for stories, the Greens’ drug policy was all but a godsend.
- The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs.
- In fact, there is more scratching on this CD than on any I have heard in recent years.
- And I'll bet he doesn't sit around in an undershirt, scratching himself. MR STARLIGHT
- The editor of the local paper says he's really scratching around for stories this week.