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Example sentences for: scratches

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

The act of gardening itself was joyous--rising early, smelling earth, getting dirty, getting scratches that I wore proudly, making compost, lugging, digging, and planting.
only scratches the surface of this issue by focusing on the murky areas of politics, raw power, and corruption.
There are scratches on the veneer of authenticity, though.
The author is spared an exhaustive listing by the constraints of her corpus (British newspapers), which provides a representative listing but barely scratches the surface of the language.
The USAT lead is that U.S. airlines are canceling domestic flights at a pace that will likely lead to the highest annual percentage of scratches in the last five years.