Scraps in a sentence as a noun

OEMs are the Vietcom, used to live on a cage or in the jungle, eating scraps.

It took about 2 years and we made it from all sorts of scraps and pieces ..."Brian May is no slouch either.

A few minor border scraps aside, the PLA hasn’t seen real combat since the Korean War.

They're happy to fight over scraps in a commodity market.

" he'd inquire, raising his palm so that the cook could see the bits of dirt and scraps sticking to his chef's palm, "That's what the inside of your head looks like now. Work clean!

They feed on paper, torn cloth, household scraps and small quantities of food stolen from market stalls.

Grandma's ancient cast-iron frying pan over burning wood scraps in the back yard, make a nice veggies-and-shrimp stir fry.

"When we allowed 20% of the population to assume ownership of 80% of the wealth, forcing everyone else to scramble for scraps.

The "talent" is rewarded with the big projects, which in turn makes management think they're working harder, while the other engineers are left with the scraps.

> scrapnelThe usual word is 'shrapnel', but this actually makes more sense in a portmanteau word sort of way: It's scraps that were hurled around as shrapnel.

" Tesla's mistake, as brilliant as he was, was his inability or unwillingness to see how the Dogs of Money keep all the good scraps for themselves.

This is an analysis why he scraps his plans for a magnet-levitation, personal transportation system and a call for new ideas.

If you're a manager and your reports figure out that you're taking all the interesting work for yourself and throwing them the scraps, they'll get pissed off and either underperform or leave.

We are to this day still piecing together charcoal smudges from the infamous 1973 St. Louis fire, to reconstruct scraps of salvageable information from WWI military records.

The conditions for its existence seem to be more to do with having a highly trained group of people who have exhausted all plausible avenues of research in a given area and are left chasing a few scraps.

Did these parents really think that the hamburger a school was serving its kids was composed of anything more than the scraps from the proverbial butcher's floor?As far as science proving things "safe and effective," this is a sliding scale, no?

What's the takeaway?And though the debate she sparked about Asian-American life has been of questionable value, we will need more people with the same kind of defiance, willing to push themselves into the spotlight and to make some noise, to beat people up, to seduce women, to make mistakes, to become entrepreneurs, to stop doggedly pursuing official paper emblems attesting to their worthiness, to stop thinking those scraps of paper will secure anyone’s happiness, and to dare to be interesting.

Scraps definitions

noun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

See also: garbage refuse