Sentence examples for little scrape from inspiring English sources

A ringed plover is settled on her eggs in a little scrape in the pebble beach and we tiptoe around her to eat.

"Even just a little scrape on the elbow can be a problem," said Barry Barone, the owner of Park Cleaners here and the launderer of choice for the Giants and the Jets for nearly three decades.

Those were just a couple of the hundreds of cases brought against Gil, ever since his first little scrape with the law, back in 1968, when he built an apartment complex in Segovia with no plans, no architect and no surveyor.

"They seem to get in the same kind of little scrapes that all kids do".

"The slightest splinter, someone like myself will hear a little scraping," he said.

"I turned the wheel to try to avoid it, and I went down on my right hand, the back of my right hand, and got a little scraped over my right eye".

Sure, the years between have done a little number on his voice, but what it lost in power he makes up for with curious inflections, little scrapes and twists that one learns over a lifetime of getting people's attention in loud bars.

Nearly all my specimens had at least one eye still on the head and usually just a little scraping with a dental tool was enough to let me see the lenses well enough to count them up.

We can use this anger and passion and knowledge of what is just and what is oh so wrong to create energy and moxie where there is little to scrape together -- or we can jump ship.

Recently my little Beelzebub scraped his elbow while skateboarding and smeared blood all over his best Ozzy Osbourne T-shirt.

For a time, the little girl scraped by thanks to charitable relatives and to a brief stint as a laundress's apprentice.