scrape through
phrasal verb
scraped through; scraping through; scrapes through
: to succeed at doing something but just barely
He didn't study for the exam and just scraped through.
Examples of scrape through in a Sentence
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Sean Nevin That was close, but the U.S. scrape through their group in second place.
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NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
And lampreys — the jawless fish that have been around, unchanged, for 360 million years — have round, suction-disk mouths and teeth on their tongues to scrape through skin and access blood.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
And lampreys — the jawless fish that have been around, unchanged, for 360 million years — have round, suction-disk mouths and teeth on their tongues to scrape through skin and access blood.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
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“Scrape through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrape%20through. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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