Sentence examples for takes a scratch from inspiring English sources

CD and DVD discs are handy for storing large amounts of backed-up files, but a disc that takes a scratch or nick to the surface can become unreadable, fouling up the best-laid plans.

It approximates the number of strokes it should take a scratch golfer to finish the course.

The artist then takes a needle and scratches it through that thin layer of wax to make the intended design.

And I would trade all such revelations for that poised encounter, in "Man Without a Star" (1955), when Jeanne Crain, seated politely at a desk, with a ledger open in front of her, inquires of Douglas, "What do you want?" In response, he takes a pen, and scratches the word "You" in rough letters across the page.

To do this, some use zero basing, which takes a start-from-scratch view to set the baseline on activities and roles in compliance, rather than starting from existing activities.

While brown bears (Ursus arctos) have been observed using trees and boulders to scratch parts of their bodies, picking up a rock and using it as a tool to scratch takes a different thought process.

Heidi Lee, who owns Woorijip, said making them from scratch takes a few hours; the restaurant sold about 40,000 of them for the holiday.

"To know you don't have to worry about skating on a Friday night being on, or club curling, or the ice conditions maybe not being up to scratch takes a massive weight off our shoulders," Muirhead said.

As a result, HGS now has ten candidate drugs in the pipeline, whereas Incyte has none.Starting from scratch, it takes a long time to become a real drug company (ie, one with drugs on the market).

To walk the talk: Here is the source code of a program in computer vision (written totally from scratch) which takes a movie and finds and tracks features like corners.

Doing so takes a benchtop of assays including scratch assays for observing cancer cell chemotaxis, sequence analysis for finding mutations that drive cancer cell behavior, three-dimensional (3D) cell culture and engineered environments to model the niche, and intravital imaging, all to gain insight into the cancer cell sleep wake dynamic.