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Example sentences for "scrapped"

Lexicographically close words:
scraper; scrapers; scrapes; scraping; scrapings; scrapping; scrapple; scrappy; scraps; scrat
  1. But when, on his return, he beheld their handiwork he scrapped it, and a considerable loss of time ensued for which the world has since had to pay very heavily.

  2. The older vessels were scrapped or reduced to tug service and finer steamboats were built; and once upon the water the engines were driven at full speed that quicker trips might lure passengers to patronize the swifter boats.

  3. But we Americans must always have the superlative, and therefore many a steamer has had to be scrapped simply because it had no palm gardens, no swimming pools, no shore luxuries.

  4. Say, when I came aboard the Myra and they scrapped the Lizzie, I never guessed to get a full cargo.

  5. Why, only he jumped in once when I was being scrapped to death.

  6. So he scrapped his original orders, and drove with all his force.

  7. I promise you I scrapped as I never did before.

  8. The traditions which have dominated hitherto must one by one be challenged to render account of themselves, that which is good in them must be conserved and assimilated, that which is effete must be scrapped and rejected.

  9. Neither can the administrative machinery, as it exists, be taken for granted; unless it shows those powers of adaptation and growth which show it to be alive and not dead, it too must be scrapped and rejected; new wine is fatal to old skins.

  10. I've never scrapped him in the air, but he's one guy I know I can nail.

  11. Too many, many times, though, had Dawson scrapped with the best that the Nazis or the Japs had to offer not to be able to react instinctively to approaching danger.

  12. Her father scrapped him as hopelessly out of touch with modern conditions.

  13. Manufacturers who refuse to scrap obsolete machinery are scrapped themselves.

  14. Not that the Freudian fundamentals will be scrapped completely.

  15. It is hardly too much to say that English Constitutional Law has been scrapped since the War.

  16. Some of the new Ministries ought to be scrapped directly the War is over, and the business of others continued only so far as necessary for winding up.

  17. He scrapped them all the way back to the lines, crashing one of them, and holding the other two off.

  18. We got into another big show on the 11th, and scrapped hard for about twenty minutes over the Hindenburg Line, without any luck.


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