Example Sentences

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Listen hard to Spector’s stuff, though — to the trembling strings, the yelping vocals, the multiple guitars jabbing at an unscratchable itch — and you also hear fear.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2021

Then he needed to find some unscratchable itch, and found it at 50 miles or a 100 miles or longer.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2020

That unscratchable itch: “Hey, this time I’ll be rich!”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017

A molded plastic papoose is propped on what looks like an unscratchable table top whose resins have been stroked into a semblance of rose wood or walnut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.