Sentence examples for stopped to scratch from inspiring English sources
And the corner-shop owner, a real tough guy who doesn't like a single or even a multiple thing, stopped to scratch her head.
He stops to scratch his foot.
I pass people every day that intrigue me -- after all, I work in New York City -- but whether because of time pressure or simple discomfort with approaching strangers, I never stop to scratch the journalist itch inside.
But as the gigantic rodents (bigger than New York City sewer rats) stuffed into tiny harnesses began to sweep back and forth on ropes between their human handlers, stopping every so often to scratch and point out a landmine, it didn't take long for the crowd to be convinced.
If you have an itch on your face, you tend to scratch it without stopping to think about whether your hands are clean.
Why, he wondered, did the rash seem to go away so quickly when kids forgot to scratch, or stopped talking about it, or applied good old calamine lotion?
I'm not going to lie! Then Mary went on to tell Connor to tell both Ryan, his older brother and myself to stop playing scratch off lottery cards to change our financial situation.
The best way to get a cat to stop scratching your favorite chair or sofa is to redirect their attention.
An itch demands a scratch, but science has barely begun to scratch the surface of why an itch itches, and how to make it stop.
Telling someone to just "listen to the music" is about as effective as telling someone to stop scratching once they've started itching.
