What is "scraped up"

Usage examples of "scraped up".

Two swam in close enough to give it a final shove, and it scraped up along the beach, rolling against the pebbled shore until it wedged face up between two rocks, caught there.

When she had finally scraped up enough money to buy the agency, she had known how to handle the customer part of the business, but despite her college degree in administration, there was a great deal of difference between textbooks and real life.

If Padova had gotten the wrong angle, the wire would've scraped up the bow slope and decapitated any gunner who hadn't ducked quickly enough.

She'd been too scraped up to make herself spread on sun block, and the sun burned her raw flesh.

Then it scraped up another lump, and reached toward Ofelia, holding its hand in front of her mouth.

Her other hand spread wide and scraped up my belly from the roots of my prick to the arc of my ribcage.

But between your grandmother and me, we have scraped up enough for a hired coach.

He scraped up the pine pitch with his knife and pressed it into the cattail, then called for the loan of a fire-forged knife.

Presently there was not enough powder to fire even one cannon, but Harper prayed enough propellant would be scraped up from the local village.

Meat dust, she says, is what is scraped up off the floor after they’.

Besides the honor alone, that's one reason I asked you I've scraped up every Marshal around, and the best of the senior knights, just in case, but we still have only fifteen examiners.