Example Sentences

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The ghost-written work is a fast-paced, quickfire account, looking out from the inside, always scratchily aware of the bodyguards outside the door and the cameras waiting to catch him.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

By the time she was nine, she had read “Middlemarch” and most of Dickens; she learned the violin and played it scratchily but at a tremendous pace, advancing through all the grades.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Here he started scratchily, but by the end seemed to have become weirdly ubiquitous, a gristly substance spread across the whole of that Leicester backline.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

The kid on the bus seat next to me was scratchily drawing on his binder with one of those new Bic pens made of clear plastic.

From Forbes • Jul. 13, 2015

One dined scratchily off luke-warm silver, one's breakfast cup was Crown Derby set in filigree.

From The Oyster by Peer