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He was in the process of scraping the hair from his face.
I know he'd better stop scraping them whatever he's doing.
We spent half an hour scraping it off my body.
In the other, the middle class is barely scraping by.
Then he heard her feet scraping the stone floor again.
I could hear her feet scraping on the stone floor.
The other kids, their folks were all just scraping by.
Life was going on more or less as usual, scraping by.
Scraping against a wall would be just a matter of paint.
So much had been lost that they were having trouble scraping together money for food.
"I had to get a lot of people who were out scraping their cars," she said.
"I was just scraping along and doing the credit card thing again."
At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel.
Much of the conference is given over to scraping up troops.
Your mother really has a hard time scraping our meals together.
He heard chairs scraping as people stood or tried to stand.
I should not have before, but you've a way of scraping a man raw.
I tried scraping with a knife, but it is a very difficult.
On top of all this, I was just barely scraping by.
Something was scraping along the floor of the boys' bedroom.
But the years of hard work and scraping by had taken a toll on her.
Many variations include the sound of scraping on the car door.
The thing that had fallen over went scraping along the ground outside.
When it all happened, we were in the yard, scraping down.
Scraping a hand across a day's growth of beard, he turned again to look behind him.