"scratches" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to marks or lines made on a surface by scratching it. For example: "The cat left deep scratches on the sofa."
In the cautious, unctuous and back-scratching literary world of post-war West Germany, he liked to trade scratches face-to-face, with a snarling disdain which seemed only partly affected.
As beleaguered Barclays boss Antony Jenkins scratches around for ways to stay in investment banking, he should take the hint.
Immediately grasping the situation, he rolls Sparky over and scratches his belly in a way that makes Sparky's leg go nuts.
Like cats and sunshine, and dogs and back scratches, I love breakfast.
Two days barely scratches the surface of Tasmania's 1.58m hectare wilderness, but it can give you a good taster and it doesn't necessarily have to involve canvas and campfires.
Models have frizzy hair, bags under their eyes, and scratches on their faces.
Despite few external signs of strangulation on Mr Woolmer's corpse, police sources cited a broken neck-bone and scratches on his neck as indications that this was the cause of death.
The smaller tablet scratches an itch Apple claimed it didn't have, but turned out to do, after all.(Photo credit: AFP).
The faintest ochre scratches of prehistoric antelope in a cave open a rare window into Africa's and humanity's distant past.Africa may have 200,000 rock-art sites, more than any other continent.
Porsche executives have been warned that their Cayennes and Carreras risk more than a few scratches in the Wolfsburg car park.
But are the outlines of the carbon cycle really that familiar?At the AAAS meeting in Washington, DC, Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science, which is based in the same town, gave a lecture intended to show that this view of the carbon cycle only scratches the surface.
