They said Sam Scratch was waiting by the crossroads at midnight, and no one who met him came back the same.

While revising the draft, he spent hours scratching out each sentence that didn't sound right.

He scratches out the mistake with a shaky hand and rewrites the sentence neatly.

He scratched out the incorrect address on the form and wrote the right one.

After his factory closed, he had to scratch a living doing odd jobs around town.

With two outs and the bases loaded, the batter managed a slow scratch hit that trickled past the third baseman and brought in the tying run.

The team managed only a couple of scratch hits against the ace pitcher, but they held on to win.

The new gadget is no great scratch compared to the older model, so I returned it.

In the rare folio, a scratch comma separated the alternatives, revealing the compositor's choices.

The editor removed several scratch-commas from the manuscript before publication.