How To Use Scratchy In A Sentence

Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
The poem is still at the Jackson Pollock stage - a mess of scratchy lines and blobs of ink on a yellow ground.
The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door.
The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall.

‘I look forward to it, then,’ came a soft and scratchy voice from behind.
This exhibition of what is essentially downtown art—physically and intellectually scratchy—in Knoedler's tweedily uptown space should put a happy end to that question for a while. Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay
Very stuffy nose + scratchy raw throat + epiglottal snot goblins. Odin's Day
Later, as they lay wrapped in scratchy sheets, her eyes flashing a very ordinary hazel and she cackled, “I have an idea.” 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event.
His scratchy voice was meant to sing blues, though, and he'd sound like he was singing the blues no matter what type of music he's singing.
The reporter, in his scratchy voice, asked her to retell her story.
While Galambos' black and white pen drawings at times seem a little scratchy and lacking in polish, he has a nice sense of design.
The skirt was made of a scratchy woollen mohair beneath a satin bodice.
His early albums were scratchy affairs, recorded using just a boombox with a cheap built-in microphone.
Her regularly soft voice is scratchy, disclosing the unspoken knowledge of sleepless nights and drowsy days.
When I was a kid in the fifties, the whole of our primary school would gather on the lawn while a bugle played off a scratchy record and the Head read the obligatory poem.
It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
It soon began appearing on video in both scratchy black and white and colourized versions from nearly every public domain house around.
Begin with a few scratchy sketches and then move to the canvas.
Nevertheless, I find myself at this weird juncture, a cultural snag wrapped in a conundrum shaped like a question mark dressed in scratchy raw Japanese selvedge and smoking American Spirits, glumly, in a grungy hoody, outside the bike shop, twitching just a little. Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire
One key chemical, called bradykinin, stimulates the nasal membranes to make runny, watery mucus and activates nerve endings in the throat, making it feel scratchy and sore. There Are No Simple Answers to Beating the Common Cold
And the button-down variety always felt like they'd been dipped in starch, stiff and scratchy.
She hands me the cell phone and a small, scratchy voice apologizes but says that after a trip to the doctor and a chance to revive, she will see me at her home.
He was beginning to want more than hurried couplings on fetid, scratchy straw, to want a bedmate he did not have to buy. HERE BE DRAGONS
I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs edge, feeling more rootless felt.
It was originally covered in scratchy brown fabric.
He modulated his voice to sound like a witch of popular legend - high, scratchy, and cracked.
The sunlight was bright on his face, but he ignored the glare, his attention fixed mainly on the scratchy penmanship appearing beneath his quill pen, and occasionally, on the inkpot resting at his foot.
But the scratchy kinescope replay makes it appear as if Mays simply ran back and caught the ball, not unlike any ESPN Web Gem shown every night of the season. WILLIE MAYS
His aged voice was hoarse and scratchy from the drinking of too much swipes at a funeral the night before, nothing of which contributed to make me less irritable. The Water Baby
You could tell because his voice is very scratchy from all the smoking he did in his youth.
Cameron cleared her throat and fought to enunciate, but her words still came out a scratchy drawl. MINUTES TO BURN
Skipping over the scratchy part, she began to sing with the record, her voice throaty, a low rasp.
The chasm is not a peaceful picturesque place, but a reminder of nature's power, which is emphasized by the scratchy crosshatching of the drawing.
‘Great outfit,’ Joey said disguising his voice with scratchy sounds.
This new collection manages to refresh some scratchy old records, but also to bring home the inherent power of the blues to entertain.
A driver in a good mood is statistically less likely to be involved in an accident than one who's feeling scratchy and irritable.
Listening to the scratchy recording, I recognized Walt Whitman immediately.
Listening to the scratchy recording, I recognized Walt Whitman immediately.
‘Water please,’ she managed to say in a scratchy voice.
Though the present is beautifully wrapped with bows and ribbons and shiny paper it is filled with a scratchy sweater with reindeer on the front.
The collection of new work seems to follow that same artistic idea, with lots of small models and scratchy sketches all contributing towards one central theme.
He was inspired to try his hand at poetry in high school, when he bought a scratchy Dylan Thomas record at a garage sale.
The songs on the album were all scratchy, new-wavey and sounded like they had been recorded in an upturned tin bath.
It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
It was 1944, and civilian America was undergoing a regimen of wartime austerity by which it was never more than mildly discommoded, but that imparted a sort of scratchy gray wool feel to the atmosphere. Catacomb Efreet
Scared out of my wits, dressed all in shimmering white fabric and scratchy yet beautiful white lace, I felt all alone in the foreign country of England.
This sweater is too scratchy.
‘Check to see if your guitar is in there,’ I laughed, grabbing the thick, scratchy wool blanket off the couch.
And the button-down variety always felt like they'd been dipped in starch, stiff and scratchy.
Cameron cleared her throat and fought to enunciate, but her words still came out a scratchy drawl. MINUTES TO BURN
She laughed at how persistent he was, and quickly slid out of her scratchy and stiff nightgown that she had lived in for the past week.
Use enough wire to go round a couple of times, fasten it, then wrap some ribbon or cloth around it to cover up any scratchy bits. Times, Sunday Times
I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl. Audiophile Audition Headlines
The CD's substandard sound quality recalls scratchy and filthy vinyl reproduction but, regardless, Rare Meat proves essential for collectors or diehards wishing to own his earliest recordings. Lágrima Psicodélica
I sat on the tarnished blue tiles of the bathroom floor, hiccuping, ‘I have to tell you something, Con,’ I murmured, my voice scratchy.
Unfortunately for him, he only had a small notepad and a rather scratchy fountain pen.
On this disturbingly upbeat new record, mimsy acoustic numbers such as Lonely Girls drown the victim in sentiment, and when Richard Oakes does plug in his guitars they sound anaemically scratchy.
I cough and cough as my lungs feel scratchy and abrasive.
‘Much,’ was the answer, but Stef's voice was still scratchy, and didn't sound much like him at all.
It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
A tittupping scratchy little walker meant a nervous scratchy little galloper. Penalty
‘C'mere horsey,’ the woman called in a harsh, scratchy voice.
Her style has tended toward the expressionistic - fitful and scratchy.
He winced, still recalling her scratchy laughter and screeching voice.
Hope's rather scratchy sketch shows the western end of the gallery with two Greek Doric columns framing a view of the organ.
They are blessed with youthful effervescence, a decent front man and scratchy lead guitar.
He played some fairly scratchy golf - at least by the standards of an overnight leader - but he dug in and fought hard. Times, Sunday Times
If you dig scratchy lead guitars and appreciate real good Hard Rock, that has come through a lot of neo-influences, then this album is for you.
AF is lovely on me- but I find the incensey woods 'scratchy'- not velvety. My drummer must be different: Annick Goutal Les Orientalistes (Ambre Fetiche, Myrrhe Ardente and Encens Flamboyant)
Looks a bit scratchy to me. The Sun
My parents also flinched when I put on my scratchy gramophone records of German symphonies, and prepared for complaints from the neighbours.
Andy and I sat on the edge of the dock, dangling our legs into the water with the rough, scratchy boards underneath us and the sun blazing down from above.
She disappeared for a moment, reappearing with scratchy woollen blankets.
I went into work with Anne feeling a little worn and a bitof a scratchy throat. E.Jim Shannon
Spring and a release from scratchy underclothes and chilblains and runny noses and afternoon dusk and drafty passages. Earl of Durkness
We slept in the open and cuddled under a scratchy wool blanket, ate baked beans for breakfast, farted the rest of the day away. Miracles, Inc.
His normal tone was destroyed by a scratchy undertone.
The creature's voice was very breathy but deep and scratchy.
While I sat up all night in fear of a cracker-nibbling rat, trying to watch TV and ignore the ludicrously loud scratchy noises, I was contemplating my happiness.
When the works were viewed side by side, de Kooning's brushwork really did look like a blowup of Soutine's scratchy strokes.
Earlier, three canoeists wended along the quiet millstream on the outgoing tide – passing marsh marigolds and partially submerged trunks of silvery willows towards reed beds, with spears of new growth and the scratchy song of returned sedge warblers. Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
The singer's scratchy voice and world-weary acoustic songs are nastily refreshing, and his lyrics are positively bewitching.
Some undesired effects could be a scratchy throat, coughing, or a tight feeling in the throat.
Her voice was still scratchy from sleep though.
Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship.
I've heard guys in New York who sound just like Charlie Parker, but it's like a scratchy record of Parker.
It's a scenario that plunges you back into the time of scratchy movies where the cons wore pyjama suits with black arrows on them and Cagney was king; back to the days of the early crime shows like The Naked City and Dragnet.
She rolled over on her thin pallet, on the bottom bunk, pulling her scratchy military-issue blanket tighter around her.
For Santa, that task is to deliver toys on Christmas Eve and sit in scratchy suits in department stores and next to food courts across the land. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Give yourself a gift
To stave off colds, she should combine it with aconite at the first sign of a scratchy throat or a congested feeling in the head.
Pope has a scratchy, dark drawing style that tosses characters and objects together in an impressionistic jumble.
They are blessed with youthful effervescence, a decent front man and scratchy lead guitar.
And the Caroline C----- (who the deuce is she that writes such a scratchy, illegible hand?) sends her love to Mrs. Carlyle, and proposes to 'talk to her about Amisfield and Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
One afternoon we passed over some abandoned terraces, their earth encrusted and overgrown with scratchy, sunburned weeds.
He switches from the intense concentration required to carry out a live interview over a scratchy satellite phone line to giggling with his colleague whenever there is a pre-recorded tape playing.
Until reintroduced by the CJB, we had to scrounge in Salvation Army Stores and junk shops searching for scratchy old copies of original recordings.
A former gospel choirgirl, Staton cultivated her scratchy moan during her years at Muscle Shoals (1969-73, collected here for the first time on CD) by intentionally singing herself hoarse every night.
I was recording the analog noise between tracks on a scratchy old copy of Karl Muck conducting Parzifal with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus onto a cassette tape.
The artist likes to float between scratchy, airy paintings and thicker, impasto works, such as in some of the paintings of cows.
Cameron cleared her throat and fought to enunciate, but her words still came out a scratchy drawl. MINUTES TO BURN
It started with a few scratchy 45s that an aunt had bestowed on me as an alternative to throwing the precious platters in the direction of a Blue Peter bring-and-buy sale.
‘It's broken,’ she whispered, finally breaking her gaze with Chris, plucking at the scratchy blanket on the bed.
He had rotten teeth, clumpy, nasty hair, and scratchy long fingernails.
It was a quick transport back to antimacassars, short pants and scratchy-needle upholstery.
This cold refuses to give up and is hounding my heels and head with sniffles, scratchy throat, a croaky voice and explosive sinus pain.
Its coals fade to black shortly after it starts, but then a scratchy calliope whirs to life, taking it out on a wistful, black and white note.
Silent Partners make pop music to dance to with scratchy wah-wah and rousing choruses slightly at odds with the Dermo's Discharge T-shirt and patched-up post-punk jacket.
He jumped at the sound, his heart leaping into his throat until he realized that the scratchy call was coming from the tiny communicator attached to his vest.
McKean's scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster.
He, too, played overcautiously, taking 55 minutes over a scratchy seven. Times, Sunday Times
His voice surged for a moment but it was scratchy, his throat was very dry.
He played some fairly scratchy golf - at least by the standards of an overnight leader - but he dug in and fought hard. Times, Sunday Times
Whose fscking brilliant idea was it to take this starveling waif and stretch her across these rough, scratchy, painful rocks so that one of them is digging visibly into her chest? Sports Illustrated: Hem hem
And now, in this new Web ad, which is posted on Obama's Web site, she complains that the Clinton camp used that old video, which she said was intended for things like cough syrup, for the politics of fears -- tinting the footage and adding what she calls a scratchy voice. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2008
It's a scenario that plunges you back into the time of scratchy movies where the cons wore pyjama suits with black arrows on them and Cagney was king; back to the days of the early crime shows like The Naked City and Dragnet.
His magnificent scratchy drawing skills are in global demand.
The good news is that today's sexy lingerie is no longer uncomfortable, scratchy and unpractical.
She's going to be a scratchy, hairy traveller, she complains bitterly.
Sometimes you can detect in the trees in June a very thin scratchy song without any qualities to recommend it. Times, Sunday Times
Below the word, which ran across the chest, was a fashionably scratchy picture of what he presumed was meant to be a tennis racquet.
Most of the scratchy lines and squiggles visible here are the green patina of oxidized bronze, not a part of the original coin as cast.
It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
Rose's fingers were numb from the cold, white with sharply marked red tips, and they stung bitterly as she dug them into his scratchy coat.
If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted.
None of the members of the band knew the instrument firsthand; Mr. Richmond learned how to play it from scratchy old records.
‘Great outfit,’ Joey said disguising his voice with scratchy sounds.
May 28, 2009 at 7:37 am ai kno….dats y ai am gettings all hims stuff second hands! it nawt matter then if he nawt likes, cause ai nawt pay much for stuffs anywai then! am being give a lot of cat stuff by someone on Freecycle, an sum 1 at work has a 2nd bed wid scratchy post stuc to it for me. Sigmund’s new “environmentally friendly” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
His linework was scratchy, his modelling often stiff, and his eye for perspective shaky.
It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets. Times, Sunday Times
There were no fancy high-count sheets or plush duvets, but the bedding wasn't scratchy or thin, either.
The only copy I had of the album was an old tattered cassette I recorded from my college radio station's scratchy vinyl copy.
I've got it in scratchy AM, 33s, 45s and eight-track ... On Dear Days Gone By
Use enough wire to go round a couple of times, fasten it, then wrap some ribbon or cloth around it to cover up any scratchy bits. Times, Sunday Times
Avoid wearing clothes made out of scratchy materials like wool.
She dropped her voice to a scratchy whisper.
Over and over he plays a scratchy recording of the sparrow's call.
Cameron cleared her throat and fought to enunciate, but her words still came out a scratchy drawl. MINUTES TO BURN
His falsetto voice captures the chimerical sound of the castrati with eerie accuracy, something that becomes clear when we hear a scratchy recording of the last castrato, Moreschi, made at the turn of the 20th century.
Medicine was hard, and he should work at it hard instead of fooling about learning to dance or listening to opera on scratchy expensive records.
It soon began appearing on video in both scratchy black and white and colourized versions from nearly every public domain house around.
It itched and felt dry and scratchy against his skin.
It gets the album started on a high-octane note, but no matter how scratchy the lead-in guitars are, the expensive production can't make it as excitingly raw as it would like to be.
They are bustling little birds, with bulging silvery throats, and they have a lively but scratchy song. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the scratchy lines and squiggles visible here are the green patina of oxidized bronze, not a part of the original coin as cast.
When he started preproduction for the project, he scoured music shops around New York, buying every scratchy old record he could find.
Recently my toe desquamate, scratchy, toenail decayed a bit, how to return a responsibility?
Thoughtless musical parasites nearly brought the entire record industry to its knees by recording scratchy vinyl or crackly medium wave onto hissy cassettes.
Music and lights and laughter, scratchy laughter that even in its ugliness sounded happier than mine.
Previously, many people had marvelled at the fact that using a steel needle, a revolving table and a horn you could hear a scratchy and very constrained recording of music or song.
Rob does not look like an especially gifted athlete, with a tight, almost pigeon-toed walk and a scratchy running action.
Cecil playing his favourite tune: the adagietto from Mahler's 5th on a scratchy old vinyl LP of a performance of the Columbia Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter. Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
The father asked in a scratchy voice, ‘Why was I not told of this?’
Did he ever pay a similar tribute to Smith's scratchy writings, or study his famous map?
The carpet lining the boot was scratchy - it was black and coarse and smelled of old mud and car.
It's scratchy but decipherable and pretty damn cool to listen to. The reason why you shouldnt say the reason why
I bought Toast 4.0 for the Mac, since it's good for cleaning up old scratchy records and transferring them to CDs.
‘Sire, phase one of the plan is completed,’ the monster snarled in his scratchy voice.
When he talks his voice is scratchy and foreign to me.
We spent the evening listening to her scratchy old jazz records.
They have a thin, scratchy song that is not often heard. Times, Sunday Times
They will also be far more visible, since they fly above the hedge singing a scratchy song, then parachute down again. Times, Sunday Times
He was there with a skinny Justin-Bieber-haired friend, whose small piece of cardboard read, "We are the 99%" written with a scratchy ballpoint pen. Tessa Blake: Why We Shouldn't Compare Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party
Earlier, three canoeists wended along the quiet millstream on the outgoing tide – passing marsh marigolds and partially submerged trunks of silvery willows towards reed beds, with spears of new growth and the scratchy song of returned sedge warblers. Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
We had a few scratchy records, a disco deck, a microphone, a small transmitter and a desire in our hearts to try to create something that people would be proud of.
It's like a cosy blanket with unexpected scratchy bits. Times, Sunday Times
He was wearing black faded jeans, and a red t-shirt with ‘Sporks Rule Me’ etched in black scratchy writing across it.
He was beginning to want more than hurried couplings on fetid, scratchy straw, to want a bedmate he did not have to buy. HERE BE DRAGONS
Marrakesh ‘the Red’ has the colours and shapes of the Moroccan South; the dusty rose of the desert; and the stout, square walls, their regular lines broken occasionally by a minaret or the scratchy brush of a date palm.
Some wools are scratchy giving some people the idea that they are ‘allergic’ to wool.
Use enough wire to go round a couple of times, fasten it, then wrap some ribbon or cloth around it to cover up any scratchy bits. Times, Sunday Times
Gaspard's also boasts an original pre-impressionist juke box, complete with scratchy Sartrean torch songs by Greco and Piaf, and a pinball machine whose left flipper has been bust since Stevenson's day.
She would have given anything to get out of her painful tan heels, white knee-length dress, and scratchy light brown hat and put on some torn jeans and tennis shoes.
Nicole embraced Kim tightly, the mesh sleeves of her black shirt scratchy against Kim's arms.
It was a really long song, and his singing voice was scratchy and cracked every few seconds.
All of that spicy, brothy, limey goodness is just what the doctor ordered for a stuffed head and scratchy sore throat. Archive 2009-03-01
Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship.
Is the eye scratchy what symptom be? How to treat?
They gave him a scratchy 78 rpm vinyl recording of a train and dynamite explosions in a stone quarry.
Spring and a release from scratchy underclothes and chilblains and runny noses and afternoon dusk and drafty passages. Earl of Durkness
Nerves were taut and bodies turned and twisted under the scratchy blankets.
Her vague, scratchy, grayish images look kind of like piles of bent wire already, and they might be more interesting in three dimensions.
This record sounds scratchy
A scratchy burst of static warns me that an announcement is about to burst in, unheralded, on my loud speaker.
Deepwater Horizon their "floatel" because the rig was a world unto itself: an isolated tower on 5,000-foot-deep seas, with only scratchy satellite phones and the occasional helicopter to bridge the 50 miles to Louisiana shores. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The rough prison blanket had felt scratchy through his regulation pyjamas.
But its point is its guitar sound or sounds - a primer coat of scratchy distortion topped by some free-form arpeggio, with drumstick ticks and bassy thumps added for texture rather than beat. No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between'
The lead singer has traded his toneless, dark singing style for a scratchy, emotive whisper, and the band's sound is more open and melodic.
His scratchy pen portraits might focus on children but this volume is strictly adults only.
His voice was coarse and scratchy, filled with malice and hunger.
Rows of scratchy little drawings and blotty watercolours line the walls. Times, Sunday Times
A plastic sheet was folded on top, enclosing me in a warm, slightly scratchy cocoon.
I tried to get a number for Gallo through a record company that released some scratchy, self-indulgent folk albums of his.
The salt water he had used to clean off the worst of the gunk made his clothing stiff and scratchy.
They called the Deepwater Horizon their "floatel" because the rig was a world unto itself: an isolated tower on 5,000-foot-deep seas, with only scratchy satellite phones and the occasional helicopter to bridge the 50 miles to Louisiana shores. Oil riggers on ship that exploded in Gulf of Mexico describe fateful night
It was the bringer of the gray shade, the darker part of him coming to life in a shady drawing of scratchy stick figures.
Ask your child's doctor about ways to treat the symptoms that are making your child uncomfortable, such as a stuffy nose or scratchy throat, without the use of antibiotics.
There was a barely noticeable thump, and then a scratchy sort of noise as a peg landed on the ground.
Scratchy, well defined pain indicates a corneal problem, whereas a dull, deeper pain usually indicates a more serious condition (such as acute angle closure glaucoma, iritis, or scleritis).

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