scrape

I had been living my life for nearly four years with no cartilage in my hip, bone scraping bone, bone spurs forming and joint thickening.

Their parents, Henry and Lucretia Clark, scraped together money in 1995 to buy the building and the siblings didn’t want to let go of it.

Too many Americans are barely scraping by to afford rent, and far too few can afford to buy a home, he said.

Month by month, the savings that Rosaline George scraped together in her years as a journalist and local government employee have been dwindling as the 97-year-old pays out of pocket for hourly care.

In her hand, they have almost unanimously perceived a strigil, an ancient bathing tool for scraping filth from the body.