11 Verbs to Use for the Word scrapings

" So on Saturday evening Arthur drove his wife over to the Sizer farm, and long before they reached there they heard the scraping of fiddles, mingled with shouts and boisterous laughter.

When they entered the kitchen the draught from the door scattered the ashes about, and when they piously attempted to collect them again they succeeded only in gathering together the scrapings of the flags, a collection of accumulated dirt, in which there could be but little of Uncle Macquart.

Now scrape out all the inside, being careful not to break the apples; mix scrapings with sugar, cinnamon, raisins, a few pounded almonds and add a little white wine and the grated peel of one lemon.

All of us paddling hard scraping and bumpingwe got through by the skin of our teeth, and managed to make the bank and moor our dugouts.

The houses come to their very edges, except for a narrow strip hardly to be classed as a sidewalk, originally left, presumably, only for the purpose of preventing the scraping of the front of the building by the wheels of passing carts and carriages.

Simultaneously there reached his ears the scraping of metal implements in the soft soil, the dull thud of earth falling regularly.

Some minutes later, at twenty-five to seven, I lit two candles on the desk, and sat to write to her, the pistol at my right hand; but I had hardly begun, when I thought that I heard a sound at the three-step door, which was only four feet to my left: a sound which resembled a scraping of her slipper; I stole to the door, and crouched, listening: but I could hear nothing further.

Scrape the mucous surface firmly with the back of a knife blade, and rub up the scrapings in a mortar with fine sand.

All three strained forward, listening, and Bobby caught the sound that had arrested the othersa stealthy scraping that would have been inaudible except through such a brooding silence as pervaded the old house.

There was an old road-mender busy by the bridge end, shovelling together the road scrapings in small heaps.

Alfred came lumbering up stairs, after giving his boots an unusual scraping and cleansing preparatory to entering upon that part of the premises which to him was generally forbidden ground.

11 Verbs to Use for the Word  scrapings