How to Use scrape by in a Sentence

scrape by

phrasal verb

• Alexander quit her job and spent the next two years of the pandemic scraping by.
  — Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Living with just her three youngest now, the mother must put them all to work in order to just scrape by.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• We’re all fed up with seeing the rich get richer while the rest of us just continue to scrape by.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• Airbnb did not confirm the numbers in the data scraped by Inside Airbnb.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The bottom line is that the Texans were scraping by mediocre opponents while the Ravens were smashing some of the league’s best teams.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
• Those rules produced top-heavy payrolls that see some players get paid well while others scrape by.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Musicians, authors, and visual artists can no longer scrape by with talent, hard work, and good looks alone.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 5 June 2024
• Shopkeepers and trinket vendors scraping by on $6 a day are among the few on the streets from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., when scorching heat makes Hodeida feel like a ghost town.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Caught in the middle, though, are millions of Americans who are barely scraping by.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• And plenty of publishers have now taken steps to prevent their websites from being freely scraped by web crawlers.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
• Nearly two out of every three adults in the U.S. are just scraping by, due to inflationary pressures, according to a new study.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• While Villegas struggled to scrape by on his $500-a-month salary, painting homes to make extra cash, Amorim was seemingly flush.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Researchers would have to scrape by on grants from private entities and limited state funding.
  — Owen Tucker-Smith, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• On Wednesday, the storm scraped by Jamaica’s southern coast, producing flooding rains and wind gusts over 80 mph that destroyed homes and toppled trees and power lines.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• Armstrong helped put the answer in context for everyone: Many patients have been homeless, scraping by with little to eat.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Artists who feel their work was scraped by AI without credit or compensation are seeking recourse.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 30 June 2023
• Many family child-care providers currently earn less than minimum wage and are barely scraping by, Arias said.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• But as many South Africans continue to scrape by, voters have become disenchanted.
  — John Eligon Prentice Onayemi Anna Diamond Devin Murphy, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Still, that’s often not enough to scrape by in this economy, as the Fight for $15 campaign notes; that group and others now say a $20 minimum wage nationally is a necessity.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• California's Proposition 1 scraped by with barely more than 50% of the vote in a heavily Democratic state.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• In areas like western Guatemala, where coconut, corn and banana plantations stretch along the highway, many people scrape by at a barely subsistence level.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Given rising rents and a 14% jump in food prices in Dallas-Fort Worth — the second highest nationwide after Detroit — working people and seniors who had been scraping by can no longer make ends meet.
  — Terry Wagner, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
• As a graduate of Berklee with her own memories of scraping by as a poor music student in Boston, Rachel Jordan says her investment feels personal.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
• The family scraped by on their payment plans, retiring the medical debt within a year, with help from Crivilare's side job selling resources for teachers online.
  — Noam Levey, NPR, 9 May 2024
• Tasha’s roommate Lauren (in her first screen role, Bing is a charisma machine) is working multiple jobs just to scrape by, and while Tasha might have initially offered her close pal her second bedroom at a pittance, her goodwill has run out.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
• Read full article Some of the more famous folks walking the picket lines can afford to stay out of work for months, but for the lesser lights beside them — actors and writers who barely scrape by — AI is already an immediate existential threat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Nor is life much easier for the next generation: Gaz’s teenage daughter, Destiny (Talitha Wing), is barely scraping by in class and struggling with an unstable home situation at her mom’s.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
• After scraping by with side projects since getting laid off during the pandemic, Owens finally landed a full-time position managing a housing nonprofit group in late 2022.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 10 July 2024
• But statistics on jobs filled don’t tell the whole story of people barely scraping by in multiple jobs, underemployed after a career derailment or pushed into retirement against their will.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Apple instead uses both licensed materials and publicly available online data that are scraped by the company’s Applebot web crawler.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024