Example sentences for: scraps

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

  • Later, for the second time, votive candles sparked a fire which consumed a canopy tent, bouquets, scraps of poetry and stuffed bears."

  • 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.

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

  • "Now it is Mr Barak's duty to correct that image and prove to the world that agreements signed by a previous Israeli government are not considered mere scraps of paper by a succeeding Israeli administration and that every Israeli government has the duty and international obligation to honor treaties signed by its predecessors."

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


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