How to Use scrape through in a Sentence

scrape through

verb

• England were desperately poor, scraping through the group before being ripped to pieces by Germany in the last 16 in Bloemfontein.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• Vail will join the ranks of 17 ski areas that already closed or are set to close this weekend after scraping through a season marked by Colorado’s worst snowpack since statewide recordkeeping began in 1941.
  — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
• On the other hand, West Germany had scraped through to the final with some unconvincing performances, including a loss to East Germany earlier in the competition.
  — Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 June 2026
• Carrington painted the composition canvas using grattage, a technique developed by Max Ernst that involves scraping through layers of wet paint with a spatula or blade to create underlying patterns.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026
• Santi Cazorla’s Real Oviedo scraped through the promotion play-off, overcoming Mirandes 3-2 on aggregate, to return to La Liga for the first time in twenty-four years.
  — Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025