1、We managed to scrape together eight volunteers.

2、improvise desperately; scrape together; a patchwork without order

3、Can we really not scrape together 0.001% of the population who are worthy of support?

4、If a city has enough engineers in its tax base, the bike mechanics can scrape together a living alongside them.

5、Sally has to scrape together some money for the house dues to be eligible for social functions.

6、Remember, not many people manage to scrape together the gumption and cash to experience travel and appreciate foreign cultures.

7、In the havoc of the wind and sand, in the difficult situation, the two men spent a lot of efforts to scrape together the slate.

8、With their revenues cut, rural authorities have found it ever more difficult to scrape together money for health care and education.

9、Yours was a soft job--you just cooked the land-tax accounts and reserved yourself a percentage of the opium pool, so that what you made in a month would have taken me a year to scrape together ...."

10、With the kitchen blinds drawn and all the shades pulled down to the sills, he permitted a light and he talked to Frank in swift jerky sentences as Scarlett hurried about, trying to scrape together a meal for him.

11、It usually happens that, before they can scrape together enough money, it is seized by the country officers or taken away by robbers and thieves or by fire and flood.

12、Gratifyingly, it is not even the best track on the album, which should be motivation enough to scrape together some pennies and buy the damn thing - to do our bit to keep the band going.

13、Because fees have doubled in real terms since the last recession, to 10,000 pounds a year on average for day schools, any money parents scrape together will be burned through much faster.