Sentence The phrase "close scrape" is not a commonly used phrase in English.
It is not correct to use it in written English. If you'd like to use a phrase that means a near miss or a close call you could say "That was a close call!" or "That was a near miss!" For example, "I almost missed the bus, but luckily I made it just in time - what a close call!".
The close scrape seemed to galvanise Scotland as France came to town.
As the Taliban launched its bloody resurgence in Afghanistan in late 2007, an enterprising young Afghan professional had a close scrape with death.
Vuk Draskovic, a Serbian opposition leader, returned today to his home here, the scene of his close scrape with death on Thursday night, and accused President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia of ordering an assassination attempt.
But new research published Wednesday in the influential journal Nature suggests that we may have had a close scrape with such a period earlier in the current geological epoch known as the Holocene — and that pre-industrial human modifications of the climate through agriculture, fires and deforestation might have just barely staved it off.
But mostly we encounter the corporeal: there's George Orwell felling an elephant ("His mouth was wide open — I could see far down into caverns of pale pink throat") and Tolstoy in a close scrape with a bear ("I realized that he was drawing my whole face into his mouth").
It was another close scrape that's keeping the entire city on its toes.
Each team has endured some close scrapes.
It is tempting to think that he had adventures, made connections, survived close scrapes.
Then again, they've been having close scrapes since the late-60s.
"We had some close scrapes," said Mr. Mark, who still harbors a deep hatred toward the rebel group.
They had also curtailed their trips to Mexico in recent months after having some close scrapes involving highway robbers, said Melody Reynolds, a niece of Mr. Davis's.
