How to Use scrapper in a Sentence

scrapper

noun

• The scrappers would buy cars from A&B Towing to sell for parts and metal.
  — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
• Andrew was the scrapper, the seducer of donors, the shaper of perception.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Here was a 24-year-old scrapper sucking up all the oxygen with a simplistic riff on an age-old plot.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• In Washington, the product of highbrow schools became a bit more of a scrapper.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• A half-century in the industry, Field is still a scrapper.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• The 5-foot-11 scrapper out of Springboro is still referred to in stories of Moeller basketball.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Yancy Medeiros is an entertaining scrapper who has also gone back and forth in the UFC.
  — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 3 June 2017
• But by being a scrapper, and a digger, and a pusher, Raven sometimes rubbed fellow competitors the wrong way.
  — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• But that's primarily the work for scrappers, not the military.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2016
• No easy lesson, especially for a scrapper like me who was used to righting all my worldly wrongs with my fists.
  — Roxanne Jones, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
• For all the scrapper-from-Scranton talk that Joe Biden has cultivated in his career and his campaigns, the tough-guy act has always seemed like just that: an act.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• Candidates for new blood include Rey (Daisy Ridley), the young, lowborn (an emerging theme) scrapper in whom the force is strong.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Scrappy Barkov Top-line center Aleksander Barkov is known as an outstanding two-way player, but not as a scrapper.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Conlan surely has the face of a scrapper, and Chicago was chosen as the venue for his second fight in the belief its large Irish population would embrace him.
  — Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• Another caller contacted police and said the man in question may be a scrapper.
  — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
• Heinicke has proven to be quite a scrapper and was a key impetus for Washington’s ability to claw into the playoff picture by winning five of his starts.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2022
• Dexter was a scrapper himself—their bond was sealed when Cobb saved his life in a horrific barroom brawl—and also something of a pain aficionado.
  — Sam Sacks, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Thin, white-haired Allan Hill, who lives in a section of the complex, takes Bourdain on a tour while talking about the plant’s history, the cars once made there, the scrappers who stripped it and the urban explorers who come there now.
  — Sylvia Rector, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
• Over the years, a number of Pacific war wrecks have been looted or disappeared completely, the victim of black market scrappers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
• Many have been vandalized by scrappers and are neighborhood eyesores.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2018
• Police relied on Omerovic even though Benson badmouthed him and several metal scrappers who police were counting on to make their case.
  — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
• Far from being merely an inexhaustible scrapper, though, Sitrick possesses a nuanced awareness of how the media work.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• Chudy is the membership coordinator for the Kitty Hawk Veteran’s Association, and he was involved in the effort to save the ship from the scrapper.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile, Thor lands on Sakaar, a colorful but ruthless land, and things go poorly for him very quickly when a mysterious scrapper played by Tessa Thompson stumbles off a ship and captures him.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 31 Oct. 2017
• Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• As an upperclassmen, Zalewski etched a prominent role as a scrapper.
  — Sam Brief, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• An undersized scrapper ranked seventy-third in the world is not supposed to beat the defending champion, the 2016 champion, the fifth seed, and the second seed—usually by playing her best, bravest tennis in the tensest moments, as Fernandez did.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2021
• But graffiti artists, urban explorers and scrappers found ways to invade the depot and do incalculable damage.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• Steam corroded everything made of metal that hadn't been illegally salvaged by scrappers.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2017
• Even without technical context, these things signify a certain value placed on outdoor experiences, a scrapper’s mindset for problem solving, and a view of the earth as something to be enjoyed and perhaps, protected.
  — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024