scrape (together)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape (together)
Verb
  • When the smoke cleared, leaving stains on the green that didn’t affect their shots, Scheffler, who missed birdie puts by inches on 16 and 17, came up an inch short again on his 26-footer.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024
  • Truman answers the questions put by Pearl’s diners.
    Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
Verb
  • In 2016, back in Buffalo, Ryan’s brother Rex – then the Bills’ head coach, and a massive Chicago Cubs fan – rounded up staff and rented a bus to watch Game 7 of the World Series.
    Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Get a weekly round up of the top tech stories from around the world in your inbox every Friday.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Then in 1967, the Minnesota Historical Society acquired it from the Jeffers family and began a long process of reclamation and restoration.
    John Diers, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The Utah Jazz acquired K.J. Martin and a 2028 second-round pick from the Pistons, and Josh Richardson and a 2031 second-round pick from the Heat (via the Indiana Pacers).
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The foundation stone for the 1.4 gigawatt Gorakhpur plant in the state of Haryana was laid in 2014, for instance, yet it is not expected to produce a single joule of energy until 2032 — 18 years later.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The eggs were laid in the nest overlooking Big Bear Lake.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This was the kind of odd, even morbid artifact that SNL has accumulated in spades over the years—and the 50th-anniversary celebration could have benefited from digging up more of them.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Staying in the hospital would place additional strain on her family (additional gas and food costs, childcare costs for her brothers, accumulating bills).
    Elizabeth Broden, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Benedict sawmill is laid up due to the weather.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The vote will be far from a lay up for the affable Louisiana conservative, even with the endorsement of President-elect Trump, the party’s undisputed leader.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The delivery company assembles the Avengers of mascots — including Mr. Clean, The Energizer Bunny, The Green Giant, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like and the Kool-Aid Man — for their first-ever Game Day ad.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Feb. 2025
  • McCarthy’s office had hired two newspapermen from the Washington Times-Herald to assemble the speech text for him.
    Made by History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Poss preferred a ground-heavy attack, so Johnson didn’t amass the kind of statistics that stood out in the recruiting process.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Litchfield amassed 91 points, while Melrose won the regional with 107 points.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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