Seems they scratched along for a few years and then went broke.

He scratched along their flanks, gently at first, then in a frenzy.

The nails scratched along his arm, leaving faint reddish tracks behind.

In scratch killing, fruits are scratched along their length.

Arbok reached out with a powerful hand to scratch along the bottom of his rib cage.

Rod scratched along his jaw; the bone-conduction microphone would pick up the sound.

Too little wind, and insufficient lift is available to stay airborne (pilots end up scratching along the slope).

It was scratched along the sides from rockslides, and there was mud everywhere.

Absently, Chester scratched along the seam of his pajama bottoms.

Dry brittle leaves scratched along the sidewalk.

Three black chickens scratch along a filthy gutter of blue-grey water next to the public latrine.

The rain beat at the high dormer window, and I could hear pigeons scratching along the ledge below. '

He looked more closely at the white van, noticing minute differences--that scratch along the side, the tires.

Sometimes their households scratch along, ill-fed.

Their long heavy nails scratched along the slabs of ice and masonry like nails on a blackboard.

It was constructed of three-inch thick armor alloy, yet was still dented and scratched along the edge.

The forelimbs reached forward as massively clawed digits closed about the bars of the cage, scratching along the metal.

Beds of rocks, known as "rubbing beds" are built into shallow zones, where beluga typically scratch along the bottom.

Ah, just wait till the carriage goes and the nice clothes and the servants, and we have to scratch along as we can.

For all I knew, they'd release him from his three-eighths-inch chain and send him flying down the driveway after me, toenails scratching along the blacktop.

Some tracks appeared as parallel scratches that might have been made by pterosaurs swimming in very shallow water, with their feet sometimes scratching along the underlying mud.

PERREN: Like fingers that scratch along the soil.

"She was just moving across [the harbour] to berth up for the night, and she scratched along the side of the Prince of Wales Pier.