Sentence examples for scraping against from inspiring English sources

Quivering voices are propped up by picks scraping against strings.

I could feel my limbs scraping against rocks.

The steel cleats of their shoes scraping against the gravel and concrete floor of the bullpen.

We heard an eerie screeching — almost like human screaming — that was, I think, the sound of metal scraping against metal.

From guitars come open chords in strange tunings, scraping against the key; from keyboards come mellow polytonal clusters.

Scraping against a guard rail that divided the track in two, the aircraft skidded to a stop.

And now this: draws scraped against Paraguay and New Zealand.

Cheap metal chair legs scraped against the wooden floor.

Leaves and brambles closed in from both sides and scraped against the windows.

When top drawers scraped against the countertop, the cabinet installers blamed the countertop installers.

Down the crackly phone line, it sounds like sandpaper being scraped against a pebbledash wall.