'make a scratch' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action that involves creating a scratch or mark, usually on a surface. For example, "I made a scratch on the table with my pen."
"Didn't even make a scratch," Sanchez told me.
But in her third-round match Friday against Wimbledon semifinalist and No. 22 seed Sabine Lisicki, Falconi was unable to make a scratch.
As a reviewer, it's my job to at least make a scratch at describing the plot of the novel, but as a fellow novelist, I balk at giving more than a few bare details.
Although Mr Obama proposes to axe some tax loopholes used by trust funds, his plans will hardly make a scratch on the tax expenditures, worth 7% of GDP, that are given away each year, often to ill-effect.Most glaring is the president's failure to take on "entitlements", including Social Security, America's national pension scheme, and Medicare, which provides free health care to the elderly.
It's way too early to say if DotSpots can make a scratch on that.
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Small scale repurposing projects can include using carpet scraps to move heavy furniture, make a scratching post for a cat, or create impromptu sound insulation for a home recording studio.
After a stainless steel sample is polarized in the passive part of the anodic polarization curve, a sharp pin makes a scratch on the surface, hereby removing the passive film.
Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
After making a "scratch" in the cell layer with a 200 μl pipette tip, CPC cultures were rinsed gently to discard debris.
Every time she went to the bathroom with her walker, it made a scratching sound against the kitchen's stone floor.
