Sentence examples for was scraped together from inspiring English sources

Still, her budget was scraped together.

Enough money was scraped together, and four performances were planned.

ATCHISON, Kan .— The main still of the High Plains liquor company here was scraped together from junked parts of an old food processing plant.

The financing for her next two films — "My Effortless Brilliance" (2008) and "Humpday" (2009) — was scraped together by writing grant proposals and holding fund-raising house parties that she learned to give by taking a workshop with Morrie Warshawski, author of the how-to book "Shaking the Money Tree".

Between mixing, the paint mixture was scraped together and centered on the mill.

The Green fortune was scraped together by Hetty's ultra-frugal mode of living, her shrewd real estate operations and her cautious banking activities.

She had always shown remarkable self-awareness of her own shortcomings, even if she was unable to change them, and now she tried to give the duke some of the courage she was scraping together as he, often depressed or ill, faced a still-hostile family and an ever colder world.

The last we heard from Villalonga who received a reported $24 million payoff when he left the telco last year he was scraping together a consortium to launch a counter-bid for Portugal Telecom.

Harlem River Houses in Manhattan holds Old Timers Days whenever enough money can be scraped together for food and permits.

Eric McKenzie and Mitch Brown's absence, compounded with the retirement of Beau Waters meant the absolute bare minimum was being scraped together in the riskiest part of the ground.

For as long as that were true, the capitalist enclaves could grow without wages rising: they only had to offer workers a little more than could be scraped together in the vast economic hinterland.