Sentence examples for earth scratching from inspiring English sources

No one wants to spend their short time on Earth scratching out an existence, filling in benefit forms and begging from the state.

"To walk on the ground, scratch the earth, spread their wings, roost, take dust baths".

A lively black and white mongrel named Dolly raced around beneath a grove of gnarled oak trees here with its nose to the ground before suddenly scratching frantically in the dark earth.

"O.K.," he said, "what is your riddle?" The beast smiled a devilish smile, scratching the earth with his razor-sharp claws, and intoned: "I am feathered and black but I do not quack.

Breeding occurs in winter, when males prepare raised display mounds of scratched earth.

Insects make up 80% of all biomass on earth, and we're barely scratching the surface in terms of using them as food.

Animals who began their lives abused and neglected now spend their days scratching at the earth, basking in the sun, and napping in the straw.

He does provide some clues to how the word "nigger" — with its two syllables that sound like a rake scratching against rusty, unyielding earth — came about: Nigger is derived from the Latin word for the color black, niger.

But these days, its 1,300 inhabitants are less occupied with scratching coal from the earth than with combating government security forces as part of a struggle over the future of Spain's economy.

He's facing something like sinking a double-bank billiards shot without scratching: Appeasing the raucous scorched-earth 2010 Tea Party class and making Republicans seem responsible in the eyes of the larger public at the same time.

"They'd be scratching their heads and thinking 'What on earth is this?' They might not know it was a sculpture but they had an experience".