Example sentences for: scrap

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

  • This resulted from a far-sighted 1950s Energy Department program to recycle scrap metal from nuclear weapons facilities into forms that could be used in household products, jewelry, and even children's braces.

  • The cover editorial, "A Bungled War," asserts that NATO should scrap its initial goals of establishing autonomy and democracy in Kosovo, and settle for a Bosnia-style peacekeeping force.

  • Several thousand men, women, and children lived on that dump--enduring the stench, the flies, and the toxic waste in order to make a living combing the garbage for scrap metal and other recyclables.

  • The former “Intourist” shops which only took HUFand had a virtual monopoly on quality souvenirs have been consigned to the same scrap heap as the statues of Stalin.

  • 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."


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