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View synonyms for scrape together

scrape together

verb

  1. tr, adverb to collect with difficulty

    to scrape together money for a new car

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Example Sentences

The Trump administration began arresting and deporting people immediately after Jan. 20, but the pace has since slowed as federal law enforcement struggles to scrape together enough personnel and detention space to handle everyone they're rounding up.

From Salon

As Deaux and Alyssa race around trying to scrape together enough dough to keep their home, we see other Angelenos staring nervously out their windows, hoping they won’t be next.

Before he finally got out and announced his retirement, he had competed from 108 pounds — when he was a street urchin in the Philippines trying to scrape together money for food for his family — to 154 pounds.

It ended a period of several years where the SNP seemed to be in the bunker; ditching controversial policies, desperately trying to scrape together the funds to keep expensive existing pledges afloat, and pitching very little that was new or notable.

From BBC

In 1970, she worked at a temp agency in the city, hoping to scrape together enough money to support her theater career.

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