“Then, this guy cuts me off in the rain and I put the bike down, cut up my jeans, scraped up the bike and rode home.”
Chris Dishman
“"Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.”
John Updike
“We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.”
Deanna Lassegard
“He's a young guy who works hard. He's not just scraping by in the ninth inning. He's going out there and dominating hitters and people in the stands want to see that in a ninth-inning guy.”
Mike Timlin
“Luckily, nothing serious has happened, other than some minor scrapes and bumps and cuts, but the way it's going, with all the alcohol, it's just a matter of time, ... It's not a good mix the water and that many kids on makeshift rafts drinking.”
Doug Robinson
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.”
Robert Browning
“According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.”
Mark Tobey