Sentence examples for scraped it off from inspiring English sources

"He took a knife and scraped it off".

Ms. Dietrich had convinced Mr. Smith that snow, once you have trudged through it, shoveled it and scraped it off your car windows, offers an opportunity for fun.

However, a piece of her dung got stuck to my shoe, and the stink lingered long after I had scraped it off and scrubbed the shoe with detergent.

As one of their maids told Lowry's biographer: "At the Shephards [the Lowrys' better-off relatives] we buttered the bread quite thickly; at the Lowrys, we spread it on, then scraped it off again, so there was just the merest taste on each slice".

I repainted that picture many times over the years – scraped it off – let it dissolve into layers of paint … I had captured a lot of that first impression, the tremulous mouth, the translucent skin – the tired eyes – but the colours in the painting were not finished – it was pale grey.

After the growth was "to a satisfactory level," he opened the containers, dried the fungus, and scraped it off, so as to allow light to pass through and for the film to be scanned.

He scrapes it off on fallen masonry.

"Wait until it bubbles and then start scraping it off".

If a little surface growth appears, simply scrape it off, it is not a problem.

The only way to remove it is to scrape it off, which is where dental hygienists come into their own.

"Some cricketers of old allegedly would get their nails into it, use implements to really scrape it off and it would go very quickly.