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Meanings of scrape along in inglês

Manage one's existence barely.

Usage of scrape along in inglês
1
Once or twice Reno thought he heard branches scrape along the hull.
Go home, stranger
2
There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
Sometimes he knocked against a chair, making it scrape along the floor.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
4
Sliding it to one side, Harry heard it scrape along the tiled floor.
Blood harvest
5
And soon I felt my shoulders scrape along a gravel bank.
Foxglove Summer
6
Madawc knocked his chair backward to scrape along the marble floor.
Micah & Strange Candy
7
It was a knockout of course, but he thought he could scrape along.
This Freedom
8
They can always scrape along down there, but they can never do anything big.
O Pioneers!
9
But I'm pretty rugged yet, and I guess I can manage to scrape along.
Five Hundred Dollars; or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret
10
This time his rump stuck up too far making his back scrape along the top.
Dragons of autumn twilight
11
Only to see the shaft scrape along the heavy scales and bounce to the sand.
Star Born
12
While pale gardenia skin and heavy eyelids are the vogue, I manage to scrape along.
The new yorker
13
Then we heard a grappling-iron scrape along the ground.
The Master of the World
14
I'd rather scrape along here, as best I can.
Maurice Guest
15
There's a big dented scrape along the driver's side.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16
I kicked hard, and felt the back of my head scrape along the bottom plates.
The sailcloth shroud
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Scrape along through the time
Scrape along across language varieties
United Kingdom
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