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
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
As Deaux and Alyssa race around trying to scrape together enough dough to keep their home, we see other Angelenos staring nervously out their windows, hoping they won’t be next.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025
Even though I’m only in elementary school, I can barely scrape together money to pay for notebooks and pens and pencils.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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