Sentence examples for is scraped away from inspiring English sources
In the cleaning operation that follows, pulpy material is scraped away by hand or machine, freeing the fibre strands, which are dried in the sun.
When the thin pretext of egalitarianism is scraped away the White House proposal is nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to raise taxes.
Welcome to 2011, a year that — once the last of the snow is scraped away — will bring new hope, the promise of renewal, a chance to wake up in a world in which Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" is not the consensus pick for album of the year.
Pipelines are visually jarring in East Texas because the ground is red like flesh when the skin is scraped away.
The insulation is scraped away on the top.
The patient's plaque and tartar is scraped away (scaling) and rough spots are smoothed away (planing).
Now a California developer is scraping away vegetation on the 18 acres next door to put in luxury homes.
Failed compositions are scraped away, yielding new and surprising arrangements.
Skin had been scraped away, but the wounds were not deep.
Finally, the skin is stretched on a frame and imperfections like dark skin are scraped away.
