Sentence examples for scratch away from inspiring English sources

The water, after all, is the point, and not how you scratch away at it.

Scratch away at the surface of despair and there sits hope.

This triggers us to move our hand to the source of the insult and scratch away at it.

Scratch away the happy-shopping patina of these cards, then, and you wonder if a covert aim is segregation.

The sleuth would scratch away at dead ends, and the professor would edit the sleuth's manuscript about an unsolved case.

Yet he kept returning to the subject, as if inviting me to scratch away at his scab.

It's history's Judas, scratching away in the night.

"You're better off not scratching away at past political episodes.

Kenneth Charles and Matthew Phair sat on opposite sides of the conference room table, scratching away on their legal pads.

"I'm trying to play, and she was scratching away," he said.

Davies was scratching away to get more details on the Tories' plans to cut the deficit.