Withdraw from competition

Usage examples of scratch.

As he suckled her breast, the scratch of his beard abraded her moist flesh.

Possibly the gums or the inside of the cheeks may have been scratched or abraded with a pin.

Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

Two goblins hurtled out in their wake, scratching and biting and both afire from head to foot.

After giving each of the nine members of the canine scout team a pat on the head or a scratch behind the ears, and an encouraging word or two, Ake helped secure them.

Now Alan was leaning over the sink, staring down into darkness, holding on to the darkness, which writhed and scratched beneath him.

Normally, it was given by mouth, but - as advised by the alchemist - scratched into the skin of these small people at quarter-strength, it worked amazingly quickly.

Bending nearer, Alise noticed then that the edges of the skin around the scratch were chalk white, almost as if the wound had been packed in snow.

I scratched it in my almanac, where I keep my record of planting and flowering and such.

He had drunk the best part of a bottle of arrack, had woken in the night with gripes in the belly, and then slept unevenly until dawn when someone had scratched at his door and Torrance had shouted at, the pest to go away, after which he had at last fallen into a deeper sleep.

At the hubs and junctions of the irrigation system, Auger made out the off-white sprawl of cities and townships, the tentative scratches of roads and the lines of tethered dirigibles.

Placing his tin baler before him, on which he had scratched his notes, he drew a map of the island.

For a while, the large cat kicked and scratched and even succeeded in rolling the box over on its side, but this new hardhearted Emily merely righted the bandbox and told him curtly to be quiet.

The dye from his stocking infected the scratch and, bedad, his leg had to be sawed off.