Sentence examples for scratch together from inspiring English sources
verb
To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty; to scrape together.
That will be even truer after the vote, as the parties scratch together a government.
So even if you're moving into your paramour's place, gut it, decor-wise, and start from scratch – together.
I turned 30 around 2007, which is a plausible time to scratch together to buy a flat.
"If I somehow scratch together some money, I'll go back to Port-au-Prince and rebuild my business," a food store, she said.
Later, hoping to scratch together enough money to marry his fiancée, Nina (Ms. Mortimer), he writes a gossip column for a paper owned by a blustery Canadian press lord (Dan Aykroyd).
2.37pm BST 9th over: South Africa 58-2 (Du Plessis 19, Duminy 6) Jadeja continues, and South Africa scratch together five more runs, every one of them a single.
What education Hone scratched together he mostly made for himself.
It seems scratched together and rushed even a paste-up job.
Scratching together that kind of money, a decade into the Depression, must have been a heroic feat.
For Mrs. Clinton, scratching together the money for the project was a simple matter of avoiding a diplomatic snub.
No wonder Tory leavers wanted Cameron to stay for a bit while they scratched together a plan for dismounting safely from the tiger they've been riding.
