scrabble

Example Sentences

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Who cares who “wins” more money among such a scrabbling bunch?

From Washington Post

Belotti shuffled and writhed and scrabbled at the turf with his outstretched legs, protecting his possession until help arrived.

From New York Times

To find it, he and his colleagues spent three days in the Sooretama Biological Reserve, in Brazil, scrabbling through leaf litter, prying up rocks, logs, and tree-bark with their hands.

From Scientific American

“Where are my thongs?” she muttered while scrabbling around on the floor for her footwear.

From Washington Post

The guitarist delivered barbed lines and outbursts of scrabbling chords; the keyboardist chose piercing, nagging tones; the band shared dissonant odd-meter vamps or locked into compulsive, motoric repetitions.

From New York Times