Sentence examples for to scratch someone from inspiring English sources

But if you scratch my back, am I any more likely to scratch someone else's?

If you're going to scratch someone, wave your tail first.

This has gone down in the annals of my family as one of many comical tales of my mangling of Bengali in my youth along with "wearing" insect repellent (in Bengali you "spread" it) and attempting to "comb" a cousin's hair (comb is never a verb; literally translated, you "scratch" someone's hair).

"Scratch someone who's interested in the history of cartography and you'll most often find someone who was into road maps as a kid," he told me when I went to visit him at the library recently.

Someone scratches your back, you scratch someone else's back and so on and so on.

File them into a smooth shape, or they will look ugly and misshapen - and if there are rough edges, they will catch and either scratch someone (which stings like a paper cut), or catch on something solid and break.

The tests came back a few weeks later: Kathy Mabry had scratched someone in a frantic fight to save her life, but it wasn't James Earl Gates.

Don't be afraid of office politics; "scratching" someone else's back an in order to have yours "scratched" could be a very good thing.

This time there is a video where we see a delivery guy on a scooter, who accidentally scratches someone's car.

Don't be afraid to scratch back if someone makes a jab at you, but refrain from becoming a bully.

But someone forgot to scratch out the apostrophe on one bookplate, showing that that library was plain old John Adam's.