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Example sentences for: scrabbling

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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.
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.