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
In 1970, she worked at a temp agency in the city, hoping to scrape together enough money to support her theater career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
The Jewish community would scrape together enough money to pay the fine, so that people could keep their homes and continue to live under the lord’s protection.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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