scrape (together)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape (together)
Verb
  • Shares jumped nearly 9% on the news Friday and traded roughly 2½ times the average daily options volume, with calls outpacing puts by well over 4:1.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 21 July 2025
  • Rose picked up well over five strokes on the field on the greens, leading the field in strokes gained putting by a wide margin.
    Justin Ray, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The resultant imagery is all eerily fascistic: the British army takes to the streets of London, and the press are rounded up to be taken to a non-specified location.
    Jack King, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These people are vital to the Florida economy, yet they are being rounded up like criminals.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Booth hasn’t had much regular-season success since he was acquired via trade last August.
    Jon Machota, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Adrian Houser, who had two rough starts after being acquired from the White Sox on July 31, gave the Rays five scoreless innings.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Monty lays in the dirt, left; and a close-up of his shameless position, right.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Serafini did shoot Spohr dead that day after laying in wait at the couple's $3.5 million home for hours, but Wood managed to survive despite being shot twice in the head at point blank range.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • These unexplored altitudes are also where satellites burn up during their reentries and where the air pollution produced during their incineration accumulates.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Go over the floor below the mats, seats and anywhere else that can accumulate loose dirt, debris or pet hair.
    Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Walking up the eighteenth hole, Woad laid up into the par-5 finisher before sticking a 3/4 wedge to 2 feet to seal the tournament.
    Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • The Queen Apparently only the queen bee lays eggs and can lay up to two thousand eggs a day, according to Garrison.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • From Zero gave Linkin Park their first No. 1 debut on the ARIA Chart, and first with the new lineup, which is now led by Armstrong and was assembled following the passing of former frontman Chester Bennington in 2017.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The outspoken musician and activist Tom Morello has assembled a diverse array of artists for a playlist in protest of President Donald Trump and his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s attacks on immigrants.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The five-time All-Pro receiver has amassed 26 touchdowns and nearly 4,500 yards receiving since his 2022 arrival in South Florida.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, the industrial ingredient was at once so pervasive that experts estimate around 90 percent of Americans born between 1951 and 1980 amassed problematically high levels of the element in their bloodstreams during childhood.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Scrape (together).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28together%29. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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