Example sentences for: scrap

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • In the great tradition of political and cultural journalism, the editors will spend the week lying on the beach, perhaps reading the odd scrap of old-fashioned print-on-paper, and resting up for the election campaign and other ordeals ahead.

  • 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.


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