scrape together
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Maybe he’ll eventually scrape together enough money to leave the city he’s called home for more than two decades and finally buy a regular old house — not a mobile home, not a boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
It was never too early to start looking around, to scrape together that night’s meal.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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