scrape together
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Not a trust fund, not an inheritance — the same seed money anyone might scrape together.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025
Increasingly, people live hand to mouth, buying a tomato here, a few onions there as they manage to scrape together enough bolivars for just the basics.
From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025
They used crowdfunding and took out a second mortgage on their home to scrape together $100,000 to pay for the procedure, setting $55,000 aside in what they thought was a safe escrow account.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
However, it is hard to stop the children from joining their friends on the beach when most parents are trying to scrape together a living so are not always around to intervene.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024
His mother always cried poor, but she put a lot of thought and as much money as she could scrape together into making sure she wouldn’t be embarrassed by how her family looked.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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