Scraping Sentence Examples

He loved animals, but he spent his entire life scraping to make ends meet.

Scraping the left-overs into a bowl, she ran water to wash the dishes.

The beating of the rotators died, replaced by creaking and scraping of metal.

You may be accustomed to scraping by in some third world country, but this is our country.

This consists in selecting a spot of virgin soil, clearing it of forest and jungle by burning, and scraping the surface with the rudest agricultural implements.

The scraping ceased, and her quickened breathing reached his ears.

All of this work was by hammer-dressing and scraping.

Many new wetlands have recently been re-created mainly by simply bunging up the drainage dikes or occasionally scraping areas.

Or, how about the sound of a holly bush scraping past the players jacket.

This process, known as scraping in was repeated until most of the bearing could be seen to be contacting with the crank ping in was repeated until most of the bearing could be seen to be contacting with the crank pin.

Your doctor will take a swab or scraping from a blister or sore in the mouth or genital area.

The best sort is gathered by the hand like opium; sometimes the resinous exudation of the plant is made to stick first of all to cloths, or to the leather garments of men, or even to their skin, and is then removed by scraping, and afterwards consolidated by kneading, pressing and rolling.

Berg and Vera could not repress their smiles of satisfaction at the sight of all this movement in their drawing room, at the sound of the disconnected talk, the rustling of dresses, and the bowing and scraping.

Collect samples by scraping the active edge of a skin lesion using the edge of a rounded scalpel blade or glass slide.

You can tell we 're scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to look for.

We would engage ' bottom gear ' and slither down on our bottoms, backpacks scraping along behind.

Scraping the striker down the flint generates a spark three times as hot as a standard match to ignite easily any dry tinder material.

Your vet could take a skin scraping for this diagnosis.

Once the garment has been pre-cleaned by blotting or scraping, lay the garment on a paper towel or old towel that can be stained without worry, stain side down on the towel.

Simply scraping or brushing it off will do the trick.

The moles use a similar artifice in clearing out the dirt from the cavities they form by scraping.

Must be like scraping barnacles from an oil tanker.

The phrase scraping the barrel springs grimly to mind.

In contrast to the Windsor's who expect and demand seemingly endless bowing and scraping.

But nobody thinks to ask the obvious questions; they are too busy bowing and scraping and brown-nosing.

It isn't expensive and probably won't make it into your food either through reaction or scraping.

You want to be able to sit down without scraping your legs or knees against the table.

A large, rubber tipped spoon, for example, can function as a stirring and serving spoon for big meals, as well as a spatula for scraping sides of mixing bowls.

Add the wine and stir over the heat, scraping the browned bits off the bottom of the pan.

Your vet can perform a thorough examination on your pet and take a skin scraping to check for mites.

If it's the skin, head directly to your vet who will likely want to take a skin scraping to check for a mite infestation.

Now you can begin to remove the backing by scraping the wet, sticky mess up with a scraper.

It can be difficult figuring out how to remove vinyl floor tiles without hours of scraping.

Combine the tofu, cane juice, and vanilla with a mixer or food processor until glossy and smooth, scraping the sides often as you go.

As the temperatures drop further at night, a driver will need to spend some extra time in the morning scraping frost off his or her vehicle.

We tried gnawing on it, throwing it around the room and scraping it with various metal objects.

Preventative services that the dentist can perform include fluoride treatments, sealant application, and scaling (scraping off the hardened plaque, called tartar).

A scraping of a lesion will be examined under the microscope to look for Treponema bacteria.

Scratching or scraping at lice bites may cause hives or abrasions that can lead to bacterial skin infections.

This simple test is done during a routine pelvic exam and involves scraping cells from the cervix.

Scraping or sanding lead paint creates large amounts of dust that can poison people in the home.

Add the wine to the pan and reduce by half while scraping the bottom of the pan with a rubber spatula.

Teeth cleaning - Tartar can be removed without scraping.

Root planing - The laser would replace the current procedure which uses a scraping tool that is liable to damage surrounding tissue.

You will want to take along scraping or carving tools such as putty knives or plastic utensils.

Take the grinder apart and clean as much of the larger debris out of its teeth using a plastic scraping tool.

Whether they're scary movies, or comedies makes no difference; many people think the writers, producers, and directors of TV movies are scraping the absolute bottom of the celluloid barrel.

As they begin making out, a strange scraping sound starts from outside the car.

Whenever you come to an intersection and press on the brakes, do the wheels make an ear-piercing scraping sound?

All brakes have a built-in warning indicator in the form of a "noise-maker" that emits this metal-on-metal scraping sound whenever the brakes are wearing down too far.

The longer you use your car like this, the deeper you're scraping a groove into your rotor.

If you have caked on burns and ashes, you can grab a flat, old razor blade and remove it by scraping.

The company recommends waiting until the product has dried completely prior to scraping it with a blunt, plastic tool.

It is easy to do by simply cutting the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scraping the vanilla beans from the pod into the mixing bowl.

A sob escaped her, and she fell, oblivious to the bramble scraping her arms and neck.

The so-called "pure" acid is applied to infected living tissues, especially to tuberculous sinuses or wounds, after scraping them, in order to destroy any part of the tuberculous material still remaining.

Among the tools of bone and stag's horn were awls, needles, harpoons, scraping tools and haftings for stone axe-heads.

Bands of masked men rode about the country both in the Black Patch and in the Burley, burning tobacco houses of the independent planters, scraping their newly-planted tobacco patches, demanding that planters join their organization or leave the country, and whipping or shooting the recalcitrants.

The Acridiidae have the feelers and the ovipositor relatively short, and possess only three tarsal segments; their ears are situated on the first abdominal segment and the males stridulate by scraping rows of pegs on the inner aspect of the hind thigh, over the sharp edges of the forewing nervures.

In the Assyrian tools iron drifis are of slightly twisted scoop form (so), and of centre-bit type with two scraping edges (51).

This is done by scraping the capsule with a knife and transferring the concreted juice to a poppy-leaf held in the left hand, the edges of the leaf being turned in to avoid spilling the juice, and the knife-blade moistened with saliva by drawing it through the mouth after every alternate scraping to prevent the juice from adhering to it.

Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell.  "This is killing me," he muttered.  He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her.  She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life.  Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste.  He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach.  He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back.  He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.

For more than 70 years she has lived on the Ganges delta in India, scraping a living off the land.

Frosty February mornings and evenings needn't just mean scraping ice off your car.

Even quite intensive scraping of the intestinal mucosa did not reveal coccidia.

Clean tools after use by scraping mud off and washing blades.

In our old place I used to be scraping ice off the windows.

Electrodessication - The doctor burns the tumor before removing it through a cutting and scraping method.

She shot a glance at Bordeaux, who had stopped scraping on a plate.

The scraping of leather against leather, the hollow clatter of stone and shale, the rustle of whatever creature settled behind her.

The principal tools of the Malays are the parang or golok, a heavy knife used in the jungle, without which no peasant ever stirs abroad from his house, the beliong or native axe, and the pisau Taut, which is used for scraping rattan.

Swaying upward with the roll of the ship the two foremost brows came down scraping and grinding along the mole.

These are collected in water, scraped over the edge of a shell to free them from adhering cellular tissue and epidermis, and more than once washed in a running stream, followed by renewed scraping till the desired purity of fibre is attained.

Implements of chipped stone for the purposes of boring and scraping suggest that man worked hides for clothing.

Other species, especially the alligators, make a very large nest of leaves, twigs and humus, scraping together a mound about a yard high and two or more yards in diameter.

The general include tools for striking, slicing and scraping; the special tools are for fighting, hunting, agriculture, building and thread-work.

In Bengal a small sheet-iron scoop or " seetoah" is used for scraping off the dried juice, and, as it becomes filled, the opium is emptied into an earthen pot carried for the purpose.

Scraping ToolsFlint scrapers are found from S.D.

Two others are smoothing the surface of a statue with scraping tools, formed like a strigil.

The inner surface of their cup-shaped mouth is armed with pointed teeth, with which they perforate the integuments of the fish attacked, scraping off particles of the flesh and sucking the blood.

Cynthia was scraping sugar off her knees when he told her about the phone call.

Shovel-boards, to hold in right (93) or left hand for scraping up the grain in winnowing, are usual in the XVIIIth Dynasty, and are figured in use in the Old Kingdom Pruning knives with curved blades (94) are Italic, and were made of iron by the Romans.

Their chairs made a scraping noise as the gentlemen who had conferred rose with apparent relief, and began walking up and down, arm in arm, to stretch their legs and converse in couples.

Before technology and prosperity, virtually everyone spent long hard days scraping together enough calories for themselves and their family to survive.

The sound of a key scraping against the door drew Jenn's attention outward again, and she moved to the side of the door, flattening her back against it.

In the house, she removed her camping cookware from the cabinet and started scraping together some semblance of a meal.

She heard the sound of a weapon scraping a scabbard behind her and turned.