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Example sentences for: scraping

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William Ernest Henley had tuberculosis of the bone, was hospitalized for years and treated by Lord Lister himself with, I believe, scraping of the bone, and whatever primitive antisepsis was used in those days, probably carbolic acid.
After incubation at 37°C for 3 days, colonies were pooled and collected by flooding plates with 2 ml Middlebrook 7H9 broth and scraping the colonies off the plate.
Frequenting the surf entailed sun-baking [1910], without fear of the consequences, and shooting [1912] waves, with the ambition of “scraping your nose, after a shoot, on the sand of the beach itself,” or cracking a beacher [1949].
Four to six hours of this work is very hard but, according to management, the workers are much happier with the current process than they were when working with methylene chloride - a process that involved forceful manual scraping in awkward postures for days at a time.
There are suddenly children wild on the streets, clogging the doorway to the convenience store, raucously scraping their skateboards and roller blades along the sidewalks, flaunting their pasty winter skins in shorts and baggy untucked T-shirts.