from scratch

phrase

1

: from a point at which nothing has been done ahead of time

build a school system from scratch

2

: without using a prepared mixture of ingredients

bake a cake from scratch

Examples of from scratch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

How Nancy Meyers builds her interiors from scratch Meyers doesn’t pull her sets from a catalog. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

Jackson is among the handful of candidates pivoting to the Senate race after running for other political offices, likely giving them a leg up in not having to launch from scratch. — ABC News, 17 July 2026

Međedović was neither singing from memory nor composing from scratch, and Parry argued that the Homeric poems must have emerged from a similar oral tradition. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

That experience gives Vertical access to mature autonomy software instead of developing the capability from scratch. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026

Rhymes for from scratch

• attach
• bycatch
• despatch
• detach
• dispatch
• mismatch
• nuthatch
• potlatch
• bache
• batch
• brach
• catch