Example Sentences

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Grammy-winning Nashville musician Buddy Miller is talking about his mid-1970s days as an Austin, Texas, scuffler.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2014

Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Linda Manz, a street-corner scuffler with old eyes, whose half-deaf mother worked as a cleaning woman in Manhattan, tells about her first film role as Richard Gere's kid sister in Days of Heaven.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 27, he is a street-smart scuffler who writes knowingly of dingy bars, all-night diners and down-and-outers on the make.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm a good scuffler, but I know when I'm flung down.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival