is scratching
- present progressive of scratch (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Golf is scratching his sporting itch at the moment - his handicap is down to single figures - and even watching Scotland's footballers toil against Belarus at Hampden has not unduly affected his sunny disposition.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
“What we’ve seen in our studies is scratching activates the reward system of the brain,” says Yosipovitch.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2023
“I think this paper is scratching the surface of what we don’t know. … To have cloud-related findings so robust is sort of unusual, in my experience.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
Somewhere, some quixotic director is scratching out plans for another revival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
She is scratching a mosquito bite on her neck, and my heart skips a beat, for she looks as if she has never heard of him.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
