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scrap - use in sentences
Object
- pound: He plans to scrap the pound within two years.
- fee: They would use the revenue from this to scrap university tuition fees.
- merchant: They were horse traders and scrap metal merchants establishing a family business in 1890.
- dealer: The registration process Salford has a dual application form which serves both motor salvage operators and scrap metal dealers.
Adjective modifier
- leftover: Perhaps he can wall paper the Tower with the leftover scraps?
- tiny: Jeff tore his eyes away from the tiny blond haired scrap in his arms.
Modifies a noun
- heap: I feel like I'm the scrap heap at 41.
- metal: Don't delay - the scrap metal skip beckons!
- yard: Here we pass across the back of a scrap yard for heavy lorries.
- dealer: Lists of registered scrap dealers are held by local authorities.
- merchant: One day a scrap merchant came looking for unwanted items.
- tire: Old tires are recycled by approved scrap tire collection contractors.
Noun used with modifier
- relegation: Good professionals like Wotton, Norris and Nalis should ensure that they stay afloat, but they could get involved in the relegation scrap.
- kitchen: At the most basic level, you can compost by simply burying kitchen scraps in your garden.
- vegetable: I put in vegetable scraps and added some lobworms from my local tackle shop ( they didn't have tiger worms ).
Preposition: of
- paper: Most parties were able to keep some records on scraps of paper or on bamboo strips.
- cloth: They love a treasure trove of different scraps of cloth.
- fabric: These scraps of fabric were my starting-point for Tamar.
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