scrape together
Example Sentences
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These would-be business owners scrape together financing on a deal-by-deal basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Not a trust fund, not an inheritance — the same seed money anyone might scrape together.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
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 ● Nov. 14, 2025
However, it is hard to stop the children from joining their friends on the beach when most parents are trying to scrape together a living so are not always around to intervene.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024
She finally had to sell our beat-up car to scrape together the money to get those teeth extracted.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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