scrapper
Example Sentences
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Sean Dyche is a scrapper and his Everton side are enjoying a strong end to the season.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
The city's Department of Public Health eventually denied the permit the scrapper needed to operate.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
In his bio, Sigg presented himself not as a scrapper but as a savant with “unprecedented standards.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2022
Here was a 24-year-old scrapper sucking up all the oxygen with a simplistic riff on an age-old plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
“It’s only fair to tell you, Mr. Dynamite, that he’s about the scrappiest scrapper on board the ‘Long Island.’
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin