Sentence examples for scrape along from inspiring English sources

The catastrophe could have happened in another city, yet it was my city that had been attacked, the great good place where people from all over the world somehow scrape along together.

The film races from person to person, from one side of the Atlantic to the other, giving sharp snapshots of the problems people encounter as they scrape along in economically divided nations.

One British major said to me, "Back in London, my soldiers scrape along with not much money, treated with a touch of pity.

Slatin: I think things will scrape along, but I am not convinced of any strong or even moderate upturn through next year.

While pale gardenia skin and heavy eyelids are the vogue, I manage to scrape along.

This is a film whose knuckles scrape along the ground, when it should be swinging through the trees.

My brother and I scraped along behind with our pinched faces.

She scraped along through a couple of unpaid internships before joining Nisbet and lives in Greenwich Village, where she customized her apartment by painting its brick fireplace hot pink.

Harnessed to the N.F.L.'s toughest schedule, one of the toughest in decades, the team scraped along on the back of a superb defense.

By contrast, about 10 percent of students who scraped along with C's, D's and even F's — students who turned in homework late, never raised their hands and generally seemed turned off by school — did better than their eager-to-please B+ classmates.

He scraped along by picking up exclusive rights to sell wireless broadband access at 400 airports, rail stations and hotels, then bundling the "hot spot" contracts for sale to Swisscom.