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How to use scraps in a sentence

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They just parked themselves on the edge of their box and played off scraps.
Dana made thrum-catcher bags to place by loom and collect little scraps of fiber or yarn for garnetting.
The ink drawings sketched on scraps of old wallpaper are suggestive of landscapes.
I draw all the time, on scraps of paper, serviettes, anything that's around.
The easiest way to use soap scraps is to pop them into a towelling bag and use it as a pre-soaped wash bag.
I can tell you I've gotten into some real scraps in interstate buses to get them to turn off the mind-numbing all-night videos.
Like scraps of an old manuscript traces of ancient biochemical processes survive in today's living organisms.
Occasionally a cotton crazy quilt is seen, where scraps of fabrics in a myriad of cotton prints are used to cover the quilt top.
A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them.
On the side panels, curving architectural moldings loom above business-suited men clutching Martinis and scraps of paper.
About every two years I find it hard to drag myself out of a real hole when the black dog comes calling for scraps.
As long as there were scraps of potatoes, carrots, turnips and the like, the pig could be fattened and eventually sold for profit.
The simplest thing to do is dig a small pit and pile in all your scraps, mowings and prunings.
A pack of skeletally thin dogs, which have followed their owners, sniff the wet patches of grass for scraps of food.
I experimented with reducing leftover dried clay scraps to the consistency of slip and strained the mixture to remove lumps.
As it turned out, it wasn't much, but it was enough to put a few scraps of meat on the bones of my suspicions.
Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones were scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it said.
The scraps of American, Italian, and British clothing and flying gear we used were sloppy but practical.
But they were surprised how unskilful the dogfox appeared to be in finding the scraps.
The process of transforming scraps of wood and hunks of metal into fine art is the essence of Martin's work.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Archie also lived in fear of the town's hooded crows, forcing him to resort to finding scraps of food at the supermarkets.
Then he went to a village eight miles distant and sent scraps of songs and Shakespearean quotations over the wire.
The hot pot included three scraps of meat, haricot beans, two onions, potatoes and plenty of water.
After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor.
In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper.
I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed.
Magdalen observed with some surprise that the companions of the admiral's dinner had, thus far, received no scraps from their master's plate.
It was littered with scraps of carrot, shreds of green stuff, and indescribable filth.
D'Artagnan found him watching the snowflake fluttering of the last scraps in space.
He ate a dinner of scraps at a different house every night and spent his days enjoying catnaps in the sun.
The clocks she makes from old picture frames and scraps from local framing shops are the timeliest of treasures.
Another little book or two were lying near, and a common basket of common fruit, and another basket full of strings of beads and tinsel scraps.
As in Tripod Tooter, an odd little work that resembles something hurriedly assembled from scraps of leftover clay.
It is to melt some scraps of dirty paper into bright, shining, chinking, tinkling, demd mint sauce.
There were clicks from telegraph wires, scraps of talk from other telephones, and curious little squeals that were unlike any known sound.
She is or will one day be a wife, and will contradict her husband with scraps of your arguments.
Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
Not only did they offer minimal coverage, but these fun-inhibiting scraps of fabric meant more time at the beach readjusting and retying than actually swimming.
The girl ran into the house to get some crumbs of bread, cold potatoes, and other such scraps as were suitable to the accommodating appetite of fowls.
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