scrabble

Example Sentences

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Bruno Fernandes, perhaps the only United player to have done himself justice this season, pulled one back from the penalty spot after Casemiro was kicked during a frantic scrabble.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

“It was louder and closer; it was no longer a single belligerent hum glinting with accents of brass; it had diversified into a rolling scrabble of anger, holiday high spirits and sports crowd roar.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Don’t just rely on your phone’s memory; you might not be the one making the phone call and it saves time not to have to scrabble around.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

The policy spurs a scrabble for more hard currency.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2023

Beneath the debris I could hear the scrabble of tiny feet, some rodentine dark-dweller that had survived the implosion of its world.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs