Pomp was lying face downwards, lazily scooping a hole in the sand, and watching it trickle back as fast as he scraped it away, just as if it were so much dry water in grains.
And Caporushes cleaned the pots and scraped the saucepans and said nothing.
Now next morning the pots were scraped so clean that they looked like new, and the saucepans were polished like silver, and the cook said to the scullion, "Who cleaned these pots?
So Caporushes--for so they called her since she would give no other name--stayed on and cleaned the pots and scraped the saucepans.
Then I built a fire, and while my supper was cooking I scraped up a mass of pine-needles for a bed.
I dug up the pine--needles with my outstretched hands, I scraped with my face and ploughed with my nose, I ate the dust; and when I brought up with a jolt against a log a more furious boy than Ken Ward it would be bard to imagine.
It was the gold so laboriously scraped together by the two Chinamen, which had caused, in a manner, the death of both.
By this lucky accident Leeching became sole possessor of the little pile of gold which he and the defunct Achow had scraped together and placed in a cache.
The driver scraped and grinned, although his woolly whiskers were hoary with rime.
Nevertheless, the natives had scraped small holes in the sand, as filters, and thus they were satisfied with this poisonous fluid; in some of these holes, the women were washing their filthy clothes.
Opium is, in fact, procured by wounding the fleshy capsule with a sharp knife, and suffering the milky juice which exudes to dry in the sun; after which it is scraped off with a blunt instrument, and pressed into cakes for sale.
The fruit, when used, is generally put into an oven or before a fire, and when the rind turns black, it is scraped off, and the pulp is found to resemble the crumb of new bread.
The ship scraped her side against a piece of ice, and sank after floating for two hours and a half, taking a lot of people down with her.
Then she scraped with her hind paws and, exerting an effort born of desperation, fought her way back to the overflow surging on top of the ice.
Harky hoped so, and it would be a nice touch indeed if Melinda scraped her shins when she fell in.
Seventy-five yards from where he started, Old Joe rounded a tussock and stopped so suddenly that his chin almost scraped a furrow in the sand.
It's only skin deep, the city coating, and is easilyscraped off.
The thick-set district attorney frequently scraped his throat and repeated the phrase, "if it please your honor.
Music of a lively sort he scraped from the fiddle or beat upon the triangle.
We prepared charcoal, and we scraped soot out of the top of the stove.
When the trays are removed, a short time later, the coffee is a dry solid, which is scraped off the trays, ground to powder, and moulded into lozenges.
Finally, they are scrapedfrom the pans and granulated by grinding, when they are ready for shipment in bulk.
A fortune, scraped up in forty years in Ingy, ain't to be thrown away in a minute.
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy?
On the following day the strips of bark are scraped so as entirely to remove the outer cuticle.
This is scraped off and carefully preserved, being the very essence of the plant, and exceedingly powerful in its effects.
When part of the bone of the short chop is scraped clean it is called a French chop.
Put two squares of scraped chocolate with five table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar and three of boiling water.
One cupful of brown sugar, one square of Baker's chocolate, scraped fine; one table-spoonful of water.
If the fish has not already been scraped free of scales, scrape, and wash clean; then rub into it one table-spoonful of the salt.
By specialising in science he had scrapedinto a Sixth, and he was intending to continue his athletic, if not his scientific, career at Cambridge.
Randall's captain was expecting something very different, mistimed it, and was bowled: his successor scraped nervously at a leg-break and was caught at the wicket.
We were taught the secrets of fermentation, how the wonderful Pasteur had discovered that the best and quickest was produced not by the grape itself, as of old, but by the scraped bloom of the grape inserted in the bottle.
Kit scraped his shoes very carefully (for he had not yet lost his reverence for the bundles of papers and the tin boxes,) and tapped at the office-door, which was quickly opened by the Notary himself.
As the schoolmaster said this, he saw that a small blot of ink had been thrown on one of the copies, so he took a penknife from his pocket, and going up to the wall, carefully scraped it out.
The insulation was scraped from the cable, and its various fine wires were burned clean in the flame of the lamp.
Our officers arescraped up from everywhere, the captain of my company even coming from Panama.
Snails, too, we ate sometimes, and grass roots and moss which we scraped from the trees.
Then, one winter, my friend thought he would clean out his pond, so he had all the nasty, slimy mud scraped away till you could see the silver gravel glimmering on the bottom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scraped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
