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Example sentences for: scratched

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While proclaiming that the United States has finally lost its virgin naiveté about domestic terrorism, pundits scratched their heads over why the trial didn't mesmerize the nation the way the Simpson and Rodney King cases did.
while others, including women and children, scratched at Jim's face.
He's the multimillionaire founder of a biotech company, and the mother-daughter pair in pursuit of him are hippie drifters, who whimper for their chance at legitimacy and reliable love where Adele and Ann howled and scratched.
While we scratched our heads figuring out how he could e-mail his colleague from my workstation, a third friend came up and suggested, "Why not use the telephone?"
While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Drug and Underworld Subcultures, he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón , from the Spanish nariz, nose, which compares to English slang snootful).