scrape (together)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrape (together)
Verb
  • Flip the script and set up an entryway for staying put by placing a comfy daybed by the door.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Courtesy of Cepee Tabibian In Spain, where service staff earn fairer wages, rounding up or leaving a few coins at restaurants is a small token of appreciation, not an expectation.
    Cepee Tabibian, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • While three of the four answers in the answer key rounded up hundreds, the top-right one only rounded up to 10s.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Signature Aviation, acquired several years ago by Cascade Investment (Bill Gates’ investment arm), the Blackstone Group and Global Infrastructure Partners, has invested many millions into infrastructure, with 80 ongoing projects across its global network.
    Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Walton Goggins has signed on to star opposite Amber Midthunder in Painter, an action movie project from John Wick creator Derek Kolstad that was just acquired by 20th Century Studios.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Liverpool’s pursuit of Champions League qualification lay in tatters.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For Dickinson, the greater challenge lay in finding the right tone to strike around the film’s sensitive subject matter of homelessness and mental health.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, despite the tannins, Freisa is not a wine to lay away in most examples, but rather one that should be enjoyed early on, often chilled, with soups, seafood or lighter meats.
    Tom Hyland, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
Verb
  • When exposure occurs through food or drinking water, cesium-137 can accumulate in the body and increase the risk of cancer due to its DNA-damaging properties.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • When nesting under your porch or deck or in a crawlspace, chimney, or attic, raccoon waste will accumulate and cause odors.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.
    Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Among them are the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Sandia National Laboratories in California and New Mexico, the Los Alamos National Laboratory—central to nuclear weapons design—in New Mexico and the Pantex Plant in Texas, where warheads are assembled and dismantled.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The first round recommendations were drawn up by the Statewide K-12 Graduation Council, assembled by the governor to address the issue in the wake of last year’s election.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Scrape (together).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28together%29. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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