Sentence examples for we were scraping from inspiring English sources

"Now, we were scraping for food.

"We were fighting, we were scraping.

We never felt as if we were scraping around for books that were passable enough to slap a prize onto.

My husband and I had just moved in when the murder occurred; we were scraping rotting paint off the oak moldings in our dining room when the gunshots splattered the air, but of course we believed they were fireworks lit by the kids who lived a few houses down.

Gilmour was equally dismissive of the album and once described it as "a load of rubbish", stating: "I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period".

I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period" and "a good idea but it was dreadful... Atom Heart Mother sounds like we didn't have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it".

Now we're scraping the barrel.

We're scraping bottom now, folks.

But instead of adapting we are scraping the land, removing the vegetation and losing the soil.

"We're scraping the bottom of the barrel," Mr. Gosselin said.

That perhaps we're scraping the barrel re things to sexify and that maybe we should put a cardie on.