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Recent Examples of scrape
Noun
His fingers are nicked and scarred from pinches and scrapes.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026 The audience sits in close quarters, breathing the same air as the musicians, hearing every scrape of bow against string, every intake of breath before a vocal line.—
Daniel Scheffler,
SPIN,
15 June 2026
Verb
Her bare and scraped-up leg hung out from mid-thigh.—
Will MacKin,
New Yorker,
28 June 2026 The 56-year-old year old from Northern California scraped more than 100 of his mom’s TikToks to create an AI clone of his mom’s voice, with the help of ElevenLabs, a company that specializes in AI voice generation.—
Ella Chakarian,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for scrape
The encounter began when Todd and Elvia Malcolm spotted a female moose near the edge of the woods in Telos Township, Maine, and pulled over hoping to snap a photo.
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Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
3 July 2026
After learning that her friend Shannon’s mother has died in a car accident, Elle is suddenly facing her first real encounter with grief and, unable to sit with it, throws herself into planning the memorial, down to selecting the music.
The commission said there were four reports of consumers seeking medical treatment after swallowing the metal bristles, and customers were advised to stop using the products and request a replacement nylon grill brush.
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Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
3 July 2026
That tiny brush off his head – maybe even just the tips of his hair – meant Pašalić was offside and the goal was rightly ruled out.
The officer suffered fractured ribs, abrasions and bruising and was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment, police said.
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Mauricio Maldonado,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Standardized fabric-durability tests measure how many abrasion cycles a fabric withstands before showing wear, and textile-testing services could use them to estimate garment longevity and generate CPW labels next to the price.
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Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2026
Dinner and drinks take place outside the train station, but on the one million hectares of land around it, tens of thousands of merino sheep graze, with an annual shearing happening in February.
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Maryam Siddiqi,
Travel + Leisure,
30 June 2026
With their long and crescent-shaped horns, the Inyambo cows graze at the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza and at the homes of some of Rwanda's richest people, including President Paul Kagame.