scrabbling
- present participle of scrabble.
Example Sentences
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Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami�", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scrabbling up, she cried: “Never mind, I’m not hurt a bit; now boost me up again, and let me see what is outside.”
From Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
