scrape up

How To Use scrape up In A Sentence

• Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
• Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
• I was listening to a farmer on the radio who said: ‘We don't just scrape up diseased sheep offal and feed it to cows.’
• I would very much like to pair this dress with a pseudo-Victorian choker and/or hairpiece -- something in silver (or silvertone) and pearls (but heaven knows if I'll find something I like, or if I'll be able to scrape up the dough for it if I do). January 18th, 2006
• He played little before this season but is the type of player who can scrape up several extra possessions by diving for loose balls and picking up stray rebounds.
• He knew how hard it was for some employees to scrape up a down payment.
• And there are you, perverting Nature in lying landscapes, filched from old rusty Titians, such as I can scrape up here to send you, with an additament from Shropshire Nature thrown in to make the whole look unnatural. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
• Belatedly recalling her bereaved state, she let out a sharp, unconvincing yelp of woe and stooped to scrape up a handful of dust, which she poured haphazardly over her head. The Mummy Case
• They could hardly scrape up enough money for the train fare.
• Who is willing to take whose the bearing transact below old scrape up ah.