scratch together

scratch up

verb

(tr, adverb) to assemble with difficulty: he scratched up a team for the football match

Words Nearby scratch together

scratchproof
scratch sheet
scratch someone's back
scratch test
scratch the surface
scratch together
scratch video
scratch wig
scratchy
scraw
scrawl

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How to use scratch together in a sentence

Certainly you would do your fighting first, and meantime you would scratch together any food you could.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
The most they could possibly scratch together was twenty-two thousand.
Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam Piper

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