- present participle of scuff.
scuffing
Example Sentences
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Pile on enough and you flirt with the risk of scuffing the roof of your mouth, which feels, to me, like an essential part of the experience.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Lukens and tumbled, scuffing elbows and knees, and snapping the aluminum shaft of one of his walking sticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
Toney also provided the second-half cross Keane Lewis-Potter failed to covert from close range and also, through his strength and awareness, triggered an attack that ended with the former Hull man scuffing a shot wide.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
“Guys were cutting balls and stuff like that, scuffing and altering balls.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Carl let his eyes flick over to Bernabe, who had dropped his eyes to where his boot tips—pointing outward from being on the wrong feet—were scuffing self-consciously in the dust.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
