How to Use scrapper in a Sentence

scrapper

noun
  • They were both born scrappers and not shy about discussing it.
    — Christina Newland, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Willis is a clear scrapper who can really move.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The scrappers would buy cars from A&B Towing to sell for parts and metal.
    — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Andrew was the scrapper, the seducer of donors, the shaper of perception.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Here was a 24-year-old scrapper sucking up all the oxygen with a simplistic riff on an age-old plot.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • No easy lesson, especially for a scrapper like me who was used to righting all my worldly wrongs with my fists.
    — Roxanne Jones, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In Washington, the product of highbrow schools became a bit more of a scrapper.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The Warriors still have herky-jerk players, role guys who can do the little things right, scrappers, and spot-up shooters.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Many have been vandalized by scrappers and are neighborhood eyesores.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2018
  • But that's primarily the work for scrappers, not the military.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2016
  • Another caller contacted police and said the man in question may be a scrapper.
    — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
  • As a result, a production version was never made, and the prototype was, like many project cars, sent to the scrapper.
    — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But by being a scrapper, and a digger, and a pusher, Raven sometimes rubbed fellow competitors the wrong way.
    — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Yancy Medeiros is an entertaining scrapper who has also gone back and forth in the UFC.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 3 June 2017
  • Dexter was a scrapper himself—their bond was sealed when Cobb saved his life in a horrific barroom brawl—and also something of a pain aficionado.
    — Sam Sacks, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • As an upperclassmen, Zalewski etched a prominent role as a scrapper.
    — Sam Brief, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Far from being merely an inexhaustible scrapper, though, Sitrick possesses a nuanced awareness of how the media work.
    — Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The 5-foot-11 scrapper out of Springboro is still referred to in stories of Moeller basketball.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Steam corroded everything made of metal that hadn't been illegally salvaged by scrappers.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2017
  • Heinicke has proven to be quite a scrapper and was a key impetus for Washington’s ability to claw into the playoff picture by winning five of his starts.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Over the years, a number of Pacific war wrecks have been looted or disappeared completely, the victim of black market scrappers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Police relied on Omerovic even though Benson badmouthed him and several metal scrappers who police were counting on to make their case.
    — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Scrappy Barkov Top-line center Aleksander Barkov is known as an outstanding two-way player, but not as a scrapper.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Netflix was a disruptor, a forever-scrapper trying to gain the respect of Warner Bros.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Candidates for new blood include Rey (Daisy Ridley), the young, lowborn (an emerging theme) scrapper in whom the force is strong.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But graffiti artists, urban explorers and scrappers found ways to invade the depot and do incalculable damage.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
  • Conlan surely has the face of a scrapper, and Chicago was chosen as the venue for his second fight in the belief its large Irish population would embrace him.
    — Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
  • Advertisement Harris came across as a tough scrapper who could think on her feet and conceivably handle the rigors of the Oval Office.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • No one on the Texas squad has spent more time in the program than Maloney, a no-nonsense scrapper from Missouri who set a school single-season record with 93 hits a year ago.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026

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