How to Use from scratch in a Sentence
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Some could pick up spare parts and assemble a bike from scratch.
—Claire Galofaro, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
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And it could be used to generate new videos, made from scratch.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 31 July 2026
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Everything had to be built from scratch, one line of code at a time.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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No one has time to make everything from scratch, not even Martha.
—Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 2 Aug. 2026
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Without a roadmap of her own, Jeanice had to build one from scratch.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
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Eating well doesn’t have to mean cooking from scratch every night.
—Sarah Anzlovar, Verywell Health, 30 July 2026
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Some things should always be made from scratch—we’re looking at you, vinaigrette.
—Riley Wofford, Martha Stewart, 1 July 2026
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From bottom to top, every layer of this apple pie is made from scratch.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026
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Hand me a blank sheet of paper and ask me to build something from scratch in a garage—find someone else.
—Dennis Kozak, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
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The old standard of grading a whole year from scratch is mostly gone, and good riddance.
—James Glover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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And anything made from scratch was something worthy of awe and respect.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 31 July 2026
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This isn’t about starting a franchise from scratch with a fantasy draft.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
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TikTok has been explicit that the model was not built from scratch.
—Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
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While the two share a pizza that Owen makes from scratch, Malika calls.
—Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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The cliff-jump from Jack Daniel’s to starting something from scratch might have seemed risky to some.
—Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026
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And over that period of time, really built a business from — from scratch.
—Alex Crippen, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
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And then the new tax authorities started to being built up from scratch and the people didn't trust them.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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Marc restarts his revenue counter at zero every January and re-earns the year from scratch.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
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The owners slow-ferment their pizza dough for 24 to 48 hours and make all sauces from scratch.
—Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
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Like nearly everything else on the menu, the noodles were made entirely from scratch.
—Karen Yuan, Vogue, 3 July 2026
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Levy and Parrot believed most firms would need six to nine months to build the necessary software from scratch.
—Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
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They could also be used to write an essay from scratch, solve a math problem and plan a whole science fair project with a single prompt.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
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For most CISOs, the question isn't how to build it right from scratch anyway.
—Claude Mandy, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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Another agent did not need to rediscover the same weakness from scratch.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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The core challenge, however, is that robots must be taught everything from scratch.
—Amanda McMaster, Fortune, 30 June 2026
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Whoever wins the job won’t have to manufacture an offense from scratch.
—Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
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Building custom software around all of that from scratch makes everything harder.
—Rajesh Subramaniam, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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There are people who use AI to just make a song from scratch, in the style of the Rolling Stones.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
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One of the biggest challenges of starting a business from scratch is simply figuring out what works.
—Steven Beagelman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
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Once one person's discovery is shared, others can build on it so the next person starts from what the last one learned rather than from scratch.
—Panos Siozos, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
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