Examples of scrabble in a Sentence

Verb She scrabbled around in her handbag for a pen. He scrabbled at the slippery rock. Noun it'll be a long scrabble to pull ourselves out of poverty

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Now, airports from New Zealand to Canada are scrabbling for public support in a bid to remain open. — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020 Russia cut the supply for several days, forcing Belarus to scrabble for other energy sources before some supplies resumed. — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020 People weren’t exactly scrabbling to fight over a seat. — Jonathan Vatner, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020 Watch the hooves of a dying creature frantically scrabbling to escape, trying to obey signals from its brain that its body can no longer execute. — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 3 Dec. 2019 The male nipped my ankles and scrabbled over my back, pushing me below the surface. — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019 Featuring a new cast of young heroes scrabbling for survival in a galaxy bereft of the Jedi Order, this film reunites some of the franchise’s classic characters to take down a superweapon even more terrifying than the Death Star. — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019 Carmen Izquierdo-Oliva grew up in South Los Angeles with immigrant parents who scrabbled to make ends meet as painters and janitors. — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019 President Donald Trump has been hunting for reasons to extract trade concessions from the European Union with the eagerness of a dog scrabbling around for a bone buried in the back yard. — Washington Post, 11 July 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In the scrabble of all against all, Poulain continues, physical prowess became more important than fertility. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021 In the early 90s, Nigeria’s central government recognized scrabble as a sport. — Oluwatosin Adeshokan, Quartz Africa, 8 Nov. 2019 Across the street from her, a kinetic scrabble of orange and blue runs the height of a five-story brick building like an electric charge. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019 Anthony was happiest being with family & friends, and enjoyed playing scrabble & cards. — courant.com, 10 July 2019 Here is the scrabble of historical experience before history has laid down its narrative paths. — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016 Then there was the scrabble of a key at a lock, and the other door, the one facing him, that led to the free world, opened. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2018 Mémère loved family gatherings and was ready anytime for a game of scrabble, cards, the challenge of a good puzzle or a computer game. — courant.com, 5 Mar. 2018 Spoelstra masks this small flaw by getting his group to outwork teams in scrabbles for loose balls. — Karl Bullock, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018 See More

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