scrape together
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Maybe he’ll eventually scrape together enough money to leave the city he’s called home for more than two decades and finally buy a regular old house — not a mobile home, not a boat.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Not a trust fund, not an inheritance — the same seed money anyone might scrape together.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025
Increasingly, people live hand to mouth, buying a tomato here, a few onions there as they manage to scrape together enough bolivars for just the basics.
From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025
Nevertheless, many of their founders would likely qualify as billionaires under the proposed law, forcing them to scrape together tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to pay their tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
"You will. You found forty thousand golden dragons for a champion's purse, surely you can scrape together a few coppers to keep the king's peace."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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