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scraps

NOUN
discarded food
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Example Sentences

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Her husband tried feeding their child scraps of leftover bread as families huddled in an unfinished building near the outpost, some without proper food for days.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Then do a quick sweep of your surfaces: crumbs, scraps, stray La Croix cans, to-go coffee cups, bits of plastic wrap or parchment.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

When food was available, they did not hesitate to feed on the remains of dead animals, even down to the last scraps.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

I make sock monkeys and stuff them with quilt-batting scraps.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

In front of the cutting table sat three five-gallon buckets full of scraps.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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