Sentence examples for scratched away from inspiring English sources

Shrubs and saplings had been cut off at the roots — not cleanly, but as if scratched away by fingernails.

The image of the 1950s as placid, suburban and conformist is easily scratched away with the touch of a fingernail.

Pecked or dashed lines were drawn full and then scratched away with a scalpel against a template held along the line, for uniformity.

Anyone intent on mocking the 2012 incarnation would have found plenty of juicy targets: works in which violinists scratched away and percussionists clattered around, to no pressing purpose.

It has been a long journey for a little bird that once scratched away at forest floors for insects, seeds and fruit.

Then grouse feed on them, too, finding them on bare and windswept ledges or following the antelope to spots where they have scratched away the snow.

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

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

"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.

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