Get to know Scraps better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like garbage or refuse.
Scraps in a sentence
Related words
Scraps meaning
plural of scrap
Using Scraps
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of scrap
- Useful related words include: garbage, refuse, food waste, waste.
- In the example corpus, scraps often appears in combinations such as: scraps of, food scraps, scraps and.
Context around Scraps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scraps
- In this selection, "scraps" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, food, chicken, veggie, garlic, organic and taste stand out and add context to how "scraps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few scraps of surviving and and hauling scraps. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scraps" sits close to words such as abiy, afghans and asa, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scraps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In Atomic Heart, players piece together weapons out of robotic scraps, organic goop, and spare modules. (16 words)
Harry feeds Sasha table scraps, and even though we have asked him to stop, he doesn’t. (17 words)
Bone-gray ash blankets everything: cars, crops and even the dogs that beg for scraps in the streets. (18 words)
It isn’t too hard to imagine future, post-internet linguists pondering over a few scraps of surviving paper containing an alphabet mingled with strange cross-hatchings, like mini tic-tac-toe boards, and wondering: What we were trying to communicate? (41 words)
De-bone and shred the breast meat and dark meat to create 1–3 dishes, throw the chicken scraps into soup the next day, then, boil the carcass with veggie scraps, garlic, and herbs to create home-made chicken stock. (40 words)
In March 2019, IS lost their last scraps of territory in Syria following a military campaign backed by a US-led coalition but jihadist remnants continue to hide in the desert and launch deadly attacks. (35 words)
It isn’t too hard to imagine future, post-internet linguists pondering over a few scraps of surviving paper containing an alphabet mingled with strange cross-hatchings, like mini tic-tac-toe boards, and wondering: What we were trying to communicate? (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
De-bone and shred the breast meat and dark meat to create 1–3 dishes, throw the chicken scraps into soup the next day, then, boil the carcass with veggie scraps, garlic, and herbs to create home-made chicken stock.
After dropping off their food scraps at the collection site, Pia Coleman and her children walk back to their home.
And nothing went to waste string from their Red Cross parcels found a multitude of uses, backdrops were created from scraps and scenery painted with anything they could find (or borrow).
Another user added, "I think he really thought Christine was going to respond like Meri…treat her like crap and only giving dog scraps of hints for a maybe having a fulfilling future.
Between green grass, random kitchen scraps, and thousands and thousands of grasshoppers of all shapes and sizes, starting in May, the chickens had little interest in their store-bought layer pellets.
Bone-gray ash blankets everything: cars, crops and even the dogs that beg for scraps in the streets.
Elsewhere, as basic supplies run out and sanitary conditions deteriorate, women and girls spoke of using scraps of cloth for menstrual periods.
Gary O’Neil’s side are well drilled at the back and capable of attacking with all the style of a team fighting for top honours, rather than feeding on scraps at the bottom.
Gather together the scraps of dough as you work, mould them together into a mound, and return them to the bag to rest before you try rolling them out again.
Genesis Cruz first raised the alarm about flying metal scraps and nauseating fumes at her high school campus four years ago, but no one listened.
Harry feeds Sasha table scraps, and even though we have asked him to stop, he doesn’t.
He did all kinds of jobs, and had me out working with him, washing cars and hauling scraps.
He then composts all of the food scraps, which he returns to the earth in the form of nutrient-rich soil.
He volunteers in the kitchen on weekends to save food scraps for the compost piles that feed his friends.
In Atomic Heart, players piece together weapons out of robotic scraps, organic goop, and spare modules.
In March 2019, IS lost their last scraps of territory in Syria following a military campaign backed by a US-led coalition but jihadist remnants continue to hide in the desert and launch deadly attacks.
It isn’t too hard to imagine future, post-internet linguists pondering over a few scraps of surviving paper containing an alphabet mingled with strange cross-hatchings, like mini tic-tac-toe boards, and wondering: What we were trying to communicate?
It might or might not be a win for chickens—I did not evaluate how the scraps taste compared with regular chicken feed—but I hope it will be.
It was only then that "The Big Dog" arrived to pick up the scraps, nailing Wyatt with a low blow before spearing Strowman for the win.
Mama made her clothes and mine and, sometimes, my summer shorts or play dresses were made from leftover scraps.
Common combinations with scraps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- scraps of 53×
- food scraps 27×
- scraps and 24×
- the scraps 21×
- and scraps 12×
- scraps from 7×
- on scraps 6×
- scraps to 5×
- scraps with 5×
- scraps into 4×