Sentence examples for scrubbing at from inspiring English sources

Now Verna is scrubbing at spots on the stove with the hem of her apron.

Before I walked out, I took a last look at her, pathetically scrubbing at her cheek with a cloth.

Mr. Liu peeled off his face paint, stripped off his jacket, and stood scrubbing at his blank face in the window of an F.D.N.Y. van.

As they were working on "Nanny McPhee," Ms. Thompson recalled, Ms. Lansbury caught her in a dressing room, "scrubbing at my teeth".

They also did the mopping and scrubbing at 2000 Avenue of the Stars, which also is part of the complex and is home to an array of glittering businesses, including the Creative Artists Agency, an entertainment and sports powerhouse.

She was a mother forever rubbing a licked finger to her children's cheeks, scrubbing at the pink traces of her own kisses, forever swelling up again with the next birth.

Having moved indoors, we scrubbed at ceilings, floors and walls.

He sneezed, scrubbed at his nose and coughed.

Velazquez scrubbed at Animal Kingdom's neck, and the big colt took off.

He nudged August with an elbow, and August scrubbed at a pan, ignoring him.

She didn't have to scrub at any stains because of the departed guest's good manners.