When the painter moves the ladder, its metal rung scrapes along the wall and leaves a faint mark.

After months of searching and with a tight budget, we had to scrape the bottom of the barrel and hire the least experienced candidate.

The band played classic rake-'n'-scrape that brought the crowd to its feet.

The old band revived the island's traditional rake 'n' scrape at the summer festival.

At the shorefront festival, the locals celebrated their heritage with a lively rake-n-scrape performance that had everyone dancing.

As the year drew to a close and budgets tightened, the program director scrapes the bottom of the barrel to fill the remaining airtime.

After months of rejections, the talent agency scraped the bottom of the barrel and signed a client who had never performed professionally.

To appease the patron, she spent the evening scraping and bowing whenever he spoke.

He was scraping up the spilled rice with a spatula.

She spent the weekend scraping together enough money to pay for the repairs.