scraps
Example Sentences
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Rybakina's past two wins against China's Zheng Qinwen and home favourite Coco Gauff proved she has the durability - in baseline exchanges and physical scraps - to withstand pressure.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Alas, “The Whisper Man” is merely a collection of defanged genre tropes and equally familiar character writing, tossing paltry scraps to its supporting cast in Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nearby fields were littered with broken deckchairs, scraps of fiberglass insulation and pieces of wire fencing ripped apart by the fierce winds that struck the village and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The decision last month follows consecutive earnings misses and scraps targets set in December 2024, after a five-year run where sales surged 80%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Then, inspired, she tied around her head one of the red scraps from the cloth in which she was to have married Zororo.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
