Minor arguments

Usage examples of scraps.

Of burnt-out stars not even cinders were left, the last scraps of helium ash evanesced like table dust on a windy day.

I pictured the mind of a nineteenth-century man as something analogous to my old workshop: full of information, but stored in a quite haphazard way, with open books and scraps of notes and sketches scattered over every flat surface.

No longer did the engineers of the day have to rely on the scraps and leavings of my old workshop!

Eloi, welcoming them, and tried to remember those scraps of their simple speech which I had learned before.

She felt like throwing away the petty scraps of supplies, rampaging out to the hominids, demanding attention.

And beyond that, if they were to leave with the Runners - - if they were to walk off in some unknown direction with these gangly, naked not-quite-humans -- it would feel like giving up: a statement that they had thrown in their lot with the Runners, that they had accepted that this was their life now, a life of crude shelters and berries from the forest and, if they were lucky, scraps of half-chewed, red-raw meat: this was the way it would be for the rest of their lives.

It was a plethora of speculation as fragmentary, it seemed to Malenfant, as the bone scraps on which it was based.

It was like peering up into a tunnel, lined by scraps of hurrying cloud.

The food was poor, scraps of cut-up vegetable or fruit peel or bits of gristle, some of it already chewed, sour with the saliva of Skinnies.

Why have we clung to our scraps of land for so many thousands of generations?

Emma stared at an oddly jutting chin, weak cheekbones, an absurd bubble skull with loose scraps of hair.

Through this tangle, scuttling between scraps of cover, she was able to progress almost silently.

With his agile hands he sought out the scraps of kernel the ailu had dropped, and crammed them into his mouth without shame.

When the hand had been reduced to little more than skeletal, with a few scraps of cartilage and flesh still hanging off it, she bit through the tiny clattering bones, but there was only a dribble of marrow.

There it began to compete with the amphibian for scraps of the carcass, just as in later times Arctic foxes would try to steal the kills of polar bears.