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Meanings of scraping in English
Catalan
scratch Spanish
chirriante Synonyms
Examples for "scratch"
Examples for "scratch"
1
The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
2
Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
3
This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
4
Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
5
The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
1
Friendliness in the country is not scrape, like it is in London.
2
Remove the skins from the bananas, scrape the surface as in Fig.
3
Four seconds later he heard the scrape of a latch drawing back.
4
That he will scrape and beg for any hope of Chaya's return.
5
It took the family another two months to scrape together the cash.
1
But officials acknowledge they are barely scratching the surface of the problem.
2
The only sound was the scratching of the pens over the paper.
3
I said, scratching behind his ears just the way he liked it.
4
Webmonkey: Many successful web applications start with developers scratching their own itch.
5
In your incident report from last night, you didn't mention scratching him.
Usage of scraping in English
1
He is in second year at the moment and is scraping by.
2
The children were busy scraping potatoes; she waited impatiently at the door.
3
He heard the scraping of the quill on paper and he spun.
4
A slight scraping noise arose from the open window to his right.
5
Pirenne's stylus made the faintest scraping sound as it raced across paper.
6
He heard the scraping of the padded feet upon the rocky floor.
7
The Germans were indeed scraping the bottom of the barrel for soldiers.
8
She heard a very familiar scraping noise followed by a sonorous clang.
9
There was no answer, only a strange scraping noise, and then nothing.
10
A fiddler in the gutter was scraping away on an old violin.
11
Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
12
Continue the operation, occasionally scraping off the knife or the paddle used.
13
I had started the term penniless, and been scraping by ever since.
14
Later on, after the evening meal, Eddie would begin scraping it clean.
15
He stepped forward, deliberately scraping his boots against the smooth, dusty floor.
16
Chap heard a scraping sound, and the shed door began to open.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Scraping through the time
Scraping across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common