Especially the girl Mr Royle informed me yesterday that you've had a couple of close scrapes already.

The young sleuths had already had enough close scrapes to be sure of that!

"We had some close scrapes," said Mr. Mark, who still harbors a deep hatred toward the rebel group.

Only a few years ago, it had a very close scrape with bankruptcy and was forced to sell parts of its collection.

Will had had enough close scrapes at the Academy.

Both teams laughed about the close scrape afterward.

"A few close scrapes, but nothing that called for medical attention."

I think we get alarmed by close scrapes because they're an invasion of space as much as anything else.

His close scrape of towering walls was a stroke of perfect piloting.

True, he had had some close scrapes, had run up against any number of cunning opponents.