were scraping
- past progressive of scrape.
Example Sentences
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Chair Dame Karen Bradley said it felt to the committee police were "scraping" to find a reason to justify the ban.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
But it also reflected the torrent of capital that was flowing into the investment firms when interest rates were scraping bottom starting with the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
“We were scraping the bottom of the barrel.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Musk had said that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", impacting user experience.
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2023
The old carpet was threadbare against her back, my knees were scraping the rope webbing.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
