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scraped together

vb. (en-pastscrape together)

Usage examples of "scraped together".

Teeth like a boar's tusks flashed in the light of Tunk's arrival, and the sound he made might be likened to that of iron plates banged and scraped together with great force.

I scraped together in a small heap all the tiny hints and clues that I had gathered over the years and considered them.

It looked as if he had scraped together some dry straw and dust to form a kind of bed.

He scraped together a handful of ice-encrusted soil and held it tightly in his hand.

Duncan nodded, cheAing, and Jamie lifted his cup to me in a silent toast of celebration-Woolam's offer made a total of eight hundred pounds of barley, scraped together by barter and promise.

Their blades hammered at each other, sparks flying as they scraped together, then snapped apart, only to clash again in mid-air.

Mustafa had scraped together a rather extraordinary meal - tinned tongue and bread and fruit, and, of course, tea.

Lucy sauntered over, her panty hose singing as her thighs scraped together.

The men waited in the doorway while Bobby Joe and his old lady scraped together a few clothes, some books, and stuffed these and some rocks and feathers and a branch of sagebrush into a small gray suitcase.

The wind made faint hissings in the trees, and boughs scraped together as if, it suddenly seemed, skeletons were rubbing hands in anticipation.

Then Nyuk Tsin, using her bare hands, for there were no implements, scraped together a platform of earth and covered it with twigs and leaves, and this made a bed into which the water could not creep unless the rainfall was unusually heavy.