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Example sentences for: scrabbling

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I think you are unfair to mock Carver about his derivation of raccoon . A raccoon scrabbling on the bottom of a stream is not, as you put it, “unnatural.”
This is wishful thinking indeed for New York Democrats, who are scrabbling to find a strong candidate, especially since Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would not run.
In 1849 the Gold Rush really began, with 40,000 fortune hunters from all parts of North and South America scrabbling for the $30 million worth of gold.