How to Use scrap in a Sentence

scrap

1 of 2 noun

• The Huskies knew the Aztecs would push, scrap and claw their way back.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• Set aside the scraps to fry as a treat for all your hard work.
  — Yewande Komolafe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The scrap of a garment next to the foot offered a clue.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Take a chunk of the cake scraps, and attach it to the back of the cake to form the bunny's tail.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2024
• Start by putting away leftovers and then scrape all the scraps off plates.
  — Genevieve Ko, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Roughly 60% of steel comes from scrap, and the other 40% has to come from iron ore.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
• Carefully drill all the way through the top, into the scrap wood.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
• Once in place, the new vessel will be able to take on the crude from the Safer, which will then be towed away and sold for scrap.
  — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Use any leftover scraps of crust to create the easy checkerboard squares around the pie.
  — Laura Denby, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• For decades the school scrap was a prevailing coming-of-age trope in movies and TV.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• And any leftover food scraps, of course, would have been biodegradable.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Bone-gray ash blankets everything: cars, crops and even the dogs that beg for scraps in the streets.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• Set your saw blade’s depth to 3/8 inch, and make a test cut in a piece of scrap to check it’s set up correctly.
  — Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• The scraps can be used to make the tree trunk and accompanying presents.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• The fire is the second reported at a scrap fire in as many days in Greater Boston.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The walls, old billboards and other scrap found here among the refugee camps of Rafah, on the opposite side of the Gaza Strip from his home.
  — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 24 Apr. 2024
• They were originally made of scrap metal, and have been brought back to the store many times over the last 40 years.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2023
• This will catch any additional scraps left in the broth.
  — Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
• While collecting scrap metal a few years ago, a blade fell and cut Mr. Dong’s foot.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• So, pull out your scraps and get ready to test some tasty ideas that’ll carry you through that cozy weekend after the big feast.
  — SELF, 16 Nov. 2023
• Chefs at the top have first dibs at the cornucopia of ingredients, while those in the basement are left with the scraps.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• To make: Trace the shape of a wooden Christmas tree ornament on a scrap of fabric twice.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2023
• Simmer the carcass with vegetable scraps in a pot on the stovetop, or use the Instant Pot for a faster, more hands-off process.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Cut cake scraps into a tree trunk base and assorted-size presents.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• That left millennials and Gen Zers with the scraps of starter homes left on the market and mortgage rates that hadn’t been seen in decades.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• Boomers and Gen Z are leading the trend by using scraps to create crafts and projects, recipes, and clothing and bedding.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• This is, though, where much of Europe has been for some time: scrabbling around for scraps from the Premier League’s table.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Keep your kitchen clean because gnats are attracted to food scraps.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024
• Gather scraps, reshape them, and pat them out to a ¾-inch thickness; cut out biscuits.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• Besides, the shop staff lets Young collect leftover scrap metal to create his own designs.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024

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scrap

2 of 2 verb

• Bloomberg notes that the plans could take months to launch and may be scrapped entirely.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 2 June 2023
• The show started out with a laugh track but scrapped it for Season Two.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
• Hardeman scrapped her plans and looked for a new approach.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 12 Jan. 2024
• That hasn't stopped some school districts from going forward with plans to scrap the course.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Gregory Canyon landfill project was scrapped in 2016 after part of the land had been sold.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
• That peace is not to be confused with any less willingness for Smith to scrap.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• If your business goals do not put fire under seats, scrap them.
  — Sarah Mawji, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Reroll the dough scraps to 3/4-inch thickness, and cut out remaining 2 biscuits.
  — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2023
• Panamanians held the biggest protests in decades to have the contract scrapped.
  — Elida Moreno, Valentine Hilaire, and Divya Rajagopal, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
• But those decisions were scrapped last year, sending the effort back to square one.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• All told, the four companies have disclosed their intentions to scrap 306 tech jobs in the Bay Area.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• This spring, however, Michigan Democrats scrapped their state’s right-to-work statute.
  — Eric Burlison and F. Vincent Vernuccio, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• When it was pointed out that sand would not be able to safely hold the stage’s speaker monitors in place, the plan was scrapped.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• At one point, a 24-team version of the event was announced for China but was scrapped, in part because of the pandemic.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• However, Warner Brothers said at the time that the project was never greenlit and was scrapped back in 2012.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Fed scrapped that rule during the pandemic and now lets banks decide whether to limit withdrawals or not.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• But, five years and many moments of trash talk between the two later, the two undefeated fighters will scrap in the ring.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• The plan provoked a strong reaction from parent groups and right-wing media, and soon appeared to be scrapped.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• Without solar power to charge the spacecraft’s battery, those plans have been scrapped.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• While the one-shot technique will be scrapped, the team promises that the movie’s strong social realism will be even more prominent across the TV show.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 29 June 2023
• But hours into Peregrine's solo flight the leak forced Astrobotic to scrap the moon mission.
  — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
• The team eventually scrapped the running concept and instead put its robot on a pair of Rollerblades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
• That rule was scrapped by the Trump administration in favor of a rule with a far lower threshold in 2019.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• The meeting was scrapped before Biden’s plane left Washington.
  — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• That magnetism kept the lab productive even after an initial design for the bomb, known as Thin Man, had to be scrapped in July 1944.
  — Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• Those advocates would like to see the practice scrapped all together.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Decaf Coffee In 2020, Chick-fil-A decided to scrap decaf coffee from the menu.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2024
• If Donald Trump wins the presidency, the reservation plan could well be scrapped.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
• The talks have been going on for six to eight weeks and have also included AT&T Inc. at times, but the plan may take several more months to launch and could be scrapped, one person said.
  — Scott Moritz, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Elordi is nearly a foot taller than Gere, so a shot of the two walking together — the older Fife morphing into the younger Fife — had to be scrapped.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024

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