scrape through

verb

1. (intr) to manage or survive with difficulty

2. to succeed in with difficulty or by a narrow margin

   he scraped through by one mark

Example Sentences

Ian McEwan has shared his hopes for how humankind "will scrape through" amid ongoing climate change fears.

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"So I think human civilization has an element of that too, and we will scrape through."

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If the rain hadn't relented in Antigua for England to beat Namibia and scrape through the group by the skin of their teeth, this decision could have come a good few weeks ago.

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"I don't feel a connection. I have no friends or relatives there," says one woman as she uses her knife to scrape through the baskets to release the shellfish.

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"I honestly never thought I would be good enough to be deemed a contestant, let alone scrape through certain weeks and get to the final," he said.

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