Example sentences for: scrap

How can you use “scrap” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But if "political chicanery and corruption" continue, the term might be "soon enough consigned to the already substantial scrap heap of meaningless African catch phrases."

  • Machico is one of Ma­dei­ra’s boat-building centers, and on the beach you will probably see work in progress on both old and new vessels, the former being used for scrap.

  • His tales work by accretion: After 353 pages and 11 months in prison, Wachtler has made a persuasive case for penal reform: to free nonviolent criminals, scrap drug laws, fund prison education and training programs, and more.

  • One day during a university English class, a very discomfited student, after frantic and obtrusive dictionary work, handed a colleague of mine a scrap of paper.

  • Threading the collage is the word "freedom," presented on the unlikeliest of canvases--on a scrap caught on a wire fence, on the black-leather back of a biker's jacket, on a green road sign.


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