Example sentences for: scraps

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

  • Although, according to local Albanians, the Serbs spent three days burning documents before the British arrived, the Guardian quoted an official of the Hague war crimes tribunal as saying that scraps of paper left behind might be useful in establishing a "paper chain" between President Slobodan Milosevic and the massacres carried out in Kosovo.

  • Shoes lay scattered along the road as if their owners had just stepped out of them, together with scraps of clothing.

  • The harsher critics call it "iffy ballads and lame roadhouse rock" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Despite the weakness of some of these recycled scraps, Springsteen's "unbridled earnestness and positive energy" are still impressive (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to join an online discussion about Springsteen.)

  • Since then, as bien-pensant American opinion has embraced the "peace process," Said has bemoaned Arafat's "capitulation" and grown increasingly disgusted with the chairman's dictatorial rule over a few scraps of occupied territory and with Israel's continued expropriation of Palestinian lands.

  • Moth: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.


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