“He slammed the door shut and they heard the scrape of a key in the lock.”

“Other than the cut on her hand and a scrape on her shin from the tree, she was fine.”

“The siblings always get into some kind of scrape or moral dilemma, and there are a lot of siblings to choose from.”

“An alternative method is to use a blow torch which will soften the varnish or paint, allowing easy removal with a scraper.”

“This shavehook, or moulding scraper, is ideal for a variety of tasks, including touching-up moulding shapes and restoration projects.”

“Use a scraper, wire brush, or coarse emery cloth to remove any bubbled paint finish and loose rust.”

“After hours of intense scraping, the old paint finally came off the walls.”

“The scraping of metal against metal echoed through the empty garage, signaling the need for immediate maintenance.”

“Samples of blood and mucus, scrapings of epithelium, and fragments of glands are unacceptable.”

“For the diagnosis of scabies, skin scrapings have high specificity but low sensitivity.”

“The other objects include a large ship's anchor and an eight-foot slab of concrete, both with paint scrapings.”

“There are hammerstones, cores, and flakes associated with the manufacturing of Oldowan assemblages, as well as choppers and scrapers.”

“Carpenters had mallets, hammers, drills, chisels, scrapers, planes, and copper saws at their disposal.”

“Mussels were removed using scrapers, a process that necessarily also removed most acorn barnacles intermingled among the mussels.”