scrape with
Frequency: 7.18.5 per million words
to use a tool or object to scrape something
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Examples (10)
- I scraped the carrots with a knife.
- He scraped the ice off the windshield with a plastic scraper.
- The artist scraped the excess paint with a palette knife.
- She scraped the dried mud off her boots with a stick.
- You should scrape the burnt toast with a butter knife.
- They scraped the old wallpaper off the wall with a metal spatula.
- The archaeologist scraped the soil away with a small brush.
- Try to scrape the sticker off with your fingernail.
- The chef scraped the seeds out of the vanilla pod with a spoon.
- We scraped the rust off the iron gate with some wire wool.