scrape along in a sentence
Examples
- Robin Williams plays Jakob, a Jewish former restaurateur scraping along in a Nazi-controlled ghetto in the final months of the war.
- During the 1930s, the railroad just scraped along, able to pay its operating expenses but unable to maintain track or equipment.
- Some use all the latest tools to stay in touch; others scrape along with leftovers cadged from the office supply cabinet.
- The legs of Miss Kaufmann's old oak chair scraped along the floorboards as she pushed away from her desk and stood glaring.
- Leaking gasoline from the punctured fuel tank was ignited by sparks caused from metal parts of the suspension scraping along the road.
- As the aircraft pitched upward it failed to leave the ground and the tail section struck and continued to scrape along the runway.
- The contact was so sharp that the right wheel buckled and the right plane suffered some abrasion by scraping along the beach ."
- Munsey borrowed $ 300 from a friend in Maine, and managed to scrape along as he learned the fundamentals of the publishing industry.
- The edges of the glacier shredded as they scraped along the valley walls, carrying tons of rock and dirt along for the ride.
- The spacecraft supposedly scraped along the ground for several hundred feet, shot across a narrow draw and slammed into the side of the cliff.