Sentence examples for try to scratch from inspiring English sources

Tittle would try to scratch Huff, and Huff, in turn, would pinch Tittle.

That book ends with farmers bemoaning the hard life that the waning of the Earth forces upon them as they try to scratch out a living from it.

But the fact that many pundits don't even try to scratch beneath the surface, despite knowing what it takes to win a match at this level, annoys me.

"Let's face it, as much as we try to scratch the planet Earth, we don't find any cheap stuff around anymore," Mr. Yardeni said.

The ultimate irony is that it is those minor tournaments, at which players try to scratch a meagre living while dreaming of better things, that have proved most lucrative thanks to the sheer volume of content they provide.

He expands that to include commercial writers, those who have mastered the art of story or dialogue; of his own output, he says: "I'm working hard to get better, to try to scratch out the obvious joke, to avoid the glib ending".

But we're just trying to scratch the wins out".

Life is the itch we are still trying to scratch.

She was trying to scratch her way out.

I was trying to scratch him and push him off me".

"We sat at the Brasserie with a fork and tried to scratch it.