Sentence examples for only a scratch. from inspiring English sources

Nah, it was only a scratch.

It had escaped the encounter with only a scratch thanks to Verschoor's intervention.

The fourth soldier survived with only a scratch on his head, the army said.

Mr. Diesel sails through much of the movie with only a scratch on his left cheek.

West's former students have leapt to his defence, saying he has been unfairly punished for a freak accident in which the victim suffered only a scratch.

We revere our stoic American archetypes, like the Wild West gunslinger riddled by half a dozen slugs of lead who swears, "Aw heck, Doc, it's only a scratch".

This could be indicative of cells responding to only a scratch-inflicted injury on the monolayer than an external stimulus.

The good news is that it was only a small scratch and the neighbor was good natured about the whole thing, but this, too, could have been much worse.

Douglas said she had been stabbed by a suspect, but authorities said she had only a light scratch on her abdomen that was self-inflicted.

"It was only a few scratches, and after a few days I was able to resume training," Ammann said yesterday.

The tripwires and the snares are forever being laid, but he manages to blunder through them with only a few scratches.