Words similar to scratch

Example sentences for: scratch

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

The town was built from scratch in just five months in 1774, aping the grid layout of Lisbon’s Baixa (lower city).
The next 90 minutes of The Apostle recount that new life, which the Apostle E.F. builds from scratch in a ramshackle Louisiana Gulf town.
How humiliating for Shields to know that everyone who read that thought in unison, "or watch as you scratch your private parts."
Fending off rival Airbus Industrie, the Seattle company will invest $3 billion either to build a 550-seat version of its 747 or to start from scratch on something even bigger and more uncomfortable.
I don't know about your 'hood, but here, the prettier the car the more likely it is to be "keyed"--that nasty, deep, full-length scratch (or scratches, if it is keyed by multiple pissed-off proletarians) when one's car is parked on the street.