scraping

Example Sentences

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After two years of scraping by on internships and part-time gigs, my take-home pay essentially doubled overnight.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

A Pulitzer Prize winner for “Between Riverside and Crazy,” he writes punchy dialogue and specializes in characters scraping by on the margins of New York life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"We need the tractor to be scraping up the muck, to feed the animals, for hedge-cutting and we've also started putting the fertilizer out," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

On average, scraping behavior appeared after just 82 minutes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Mom and I had plenty of days when our problem was scraping together enough money to pay the bills.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman