• If your child cuts or scratches his or her skin, be sure to use soap and water to clean the area because open wounds are more susceptible to warts and other infections.
• He dropped one hand and the one on her chin was drawn away with the nails toward her skin, so he scratched her slightly.
• Wambach's skin had been scratched and bruised in several places.

Synonyms

• Then it started on my face and some other parts of my body which you cannot scratch in public.
• Huck itches all over and tries not to scratch himself so he doesn't make any noise.
• ‘Uh, yea,’ Mark said scratching the back of his neck and walking closer to me.

Synonyms

• A while ago, while in Northern Ireland, I saw someone had scratched the name INLA into the wood of a door in a stall.
• Most often, the entire presentation surface of a redware object was covered with white slip, and a design was then scratched into the surface.
• Engraving is done by scratching a drawing with a sharp tool on a metal sheet and then making a print from the scratched lines.

• He went on marking things down on his clipboard, violently scratching a multitude of checks and notations onto the paper.
• Then, driven by whatever strange spirit possesses them, they begin monitoring speed, distance and trajectory, scratching their findings into notebooks.

• The lines have been scratched out using a needle, on a canvas smeared with oil colours.
• No way did I want my eyes scratched out by those freshly manicured nails.
• Cleanup crews watched in horror as otters scratched out their own eyes to rid them of oil.

• Yes, something was behind the vent, scratching to get out.
• She scratches at the wall but it doesn't sound the same.
• Its huge feet and long legs kept up with her easily, its clawed hands were stretched out ready to grab her, scratching against the walls, making a spine shilling noise.

• She could here the birds scratching at the ground outside her tent, the leaves on on the tree by the door blowing in the brisk wind.
• As they talked, one of his chickens scratched up a coin that the young Swede recognised (so he says) as bearing the head of the Emperor Augustus.
• The man still thinks in terms of animal manure and chickens scratching in the yard.

• Sometimes you have to grind out a result and we did that, we fought and scratched for it.
• Will this project encourage the creation of new and original art; or will it simply boost the local economy and leave artists scratching for the remaining crumbs?
• When journalists were scratching for stories, the Greens’ drug policy was all but a godsend.

Synonyms

• The rare few that still survived clung on at the edge of society, scratching a living from what little they could find in their woodland domains.
• He may not have felt so desperate if poverty hadn't forced him into exile: illegal, paralysed, scratching a living for the smallest slice of pie.
• We think that our people were made for better things than scratching a living from tourism.

• He was working ‘for those toiling and unemployed millions who do not get even a square meal a day and have to scratch along with a piece of stale roti and a pinch of salt.’
• A few of them earn quite well, but most scratch along putting in long hours and earning no more than average wages.

• Failure to play before the deadline may result in both players being scratched from the competition without notice.
• The committee have decided that players who have not played the games by that date will be automatically scratched from the competition.
• Jeter was the starter in last year's All-Star Game at Turner Field, but only because Rodriguez had to be scratched from the game due to injury.

Synonyms

• Both silver medalists at the Athens Olympics have had to scratch from their event.
• He scratched too from an exhibition match after the ladies final of the US Open.
• Only four of the original 15 entrants scratched out of the race, which was contested over a muddy track.

• Wednesday's launch was scratched because of a reading of low current from a battery system on the rocket's second stage.
• Actually, scratch that, it sounds too much like we live in a lost and found shoebox.
• York RI will also play a fixture originally scratched because of poor weather when they travel to Northallerton in Yorkshire Three.

• Have you ever been in an accident where you should've been hurt, even killed- and came out with only small injuries, or without a scratch?
• I spent a year in Vietnam and came home without a scratch.
• Thankfully this man was apprehended safely and all the officers were able to walk away without a scratch.

Synonyms

• The women resume their conversation and the dogs, no longer interested in each other have a scratch or look for more interesting smells to divert their attention.
• When you've got an itch on your back you'll do anything for a scratch and there's not much in the ocean to rub against.
• I picked up the paper clip as my mind told me ‘Just one little scratch wont hurt.’

• The only other noises were the scratches of the rats claws as they helped themselves to whatever was stored in their sanctuary.
• Embedded within Pole's framework of clicks, snaps and scratches are subtle yet absorbing layers of sound.
• First came the sound of voices outside, a familiar chitter of laughter, then the scratch at the door.

• The scratches and surface noise of Jeck's vinyl further emphasise this notion.
• Yes, they were free from the scratches, clicks and pops that plagued records, but otherwise perfect they weren't.

• He went part-time at Springfield Park, where he works in the shop, to concentrate on his game and has reduced his ranking to scratch.
• The others are to play for the county girls and seniors and get my handicap down from six to scratch.
• Little Amy, 13, who receives England ‘birdie’ training, wants to get down to scratch.