Sentence examples for cannot scratch from inspiring English sources

He had said: "I cannot scratch if I itch.

Quirke, reluctantly, with a sense that sleeping dogs and rotting corpses might best be left to lie, nonetheless finds he has been delivered, once again, the itch he cannot scratch.

As he unsentimentally detailed in the first of these reminiscences published last month: "I cannot scratch an itch, adjust my spectacles, remove food particles from my teeth, or anything else that — as a moment's reflection will confirm — we all do dozens of times a day".

He wears a brave smile, but he cannot scratch his own itches, use the bathroom without help, roll over in the middle of the night — his mother sleeps next to him so she can help with that — or haul himself into the shower.

Conservatism can keep us out of trouble by warning against the fanciful idealisms of the left (communism), the right (fascism) and the ultrareligious (bin Ladenism), but it cannot scratch humanity's perpetual itch for a Promised Land free of hunger, pain, conflict and grubby politics.

Thus, topaz can scratch talc, but talc cannot scratch topaz.

We cannot start from scratch, but we can use design principles that will lead to less byzantine processes.

Ceramics cannot be scratched except by diamonds.

(Though a digital game cannot be scratched, snapped, lost, or stolen, and takes up no room on the shelf).

Hardness is used to distinguish micas from chloritoid, which also occurs rather commonly as platy masses in some metamorphic rocks; chloritoid, with a Mohs hardness of 61/2, cannot be scratched with a knife blade or geologic pick.

If the stone cannot be scratched, it is harder than the substance.