scrape together
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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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
Nevertheless, many of their founders would likely qualify as billionaires under the proposed law, forcing them to scrape together tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to pay their tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
However, it is hard to stop the children from joining their friends on the beach when most parents are trying to scrape together a living so are not always around to intervene.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024
So instead, my parents tried to scrape together every penny to pay for my sister's college in full.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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