scrape together
Example Sentences
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Maybe he’ll eventually scrape together enough money to leave the city he’s called home for more than two decades and finally buy a regular old house — not a mobile home, not a boat.
From Los Angeles Times
Not a trust fund, not an inheritance — the same seed money anyone might scrape together.
From MarketWatch
Increasingly, people live hand to mouth, buying a tomato here, a few onions there as they manage to scrape together enough bolivars for just the basics.
From Barron's
Nevertheless, many of their founders would likely qualify as billionaires under the proposed law, forcing them to scrape together tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to pay their tax bills.
They used crowdfunding and took out a second mortgage on their home to scrape together $100,000 to pay for the procedure, setting $55,000 aside in what they thought was a safe escrow account.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
