Sentence examples for scraping the bottom of the barrel from inspiring English sources

It's scraping the bottom of the barrel.

That was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

"We're scraping the bottom of the barrel," Mr. Gosselin said.

They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

"We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get people to join".

He added, "We're just scraping the bottom of the barrel, just trying to keep up".

They are guilty of last-minute scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel tokenism.

There is one case in particular from last year which scrapes the bottom of the barrel when one Elsie Poncher, a Los Angeles widow, cropped up on eBay auctioning off the crypt that lay directly on top of that occupied by Monroe.

Bob Herbert points out that because of the unpopularity of the war in Iraq, military recruiters are compelled to scrape the bottom of the barrel and accept recruits, such as skinheads and criminals, who would normally be viewed as unfit.

However, the search for an iPod head had been going on for so long that they were starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel — or maybe it's more charitable to say they were reaching the bottom of the cream and getting to the rest of the crop.

True, but on actual school improvement measures, D.C. no longer scrapes the bottom of the barrel.