Example Sentences

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I’m not surprised, but I am scratching my head, since I already have most of those feelings.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016

I am scratching you these few pencil-lines in case—as, I fear, is too probable—I may be too ill to write to-morrow.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

I am sure you won’t believe that I am scratching you in return for any scratchings from your hands. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

But no, I am still crawling; I am scratching my face and knees against the pebbles of the subterranean pathway.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence