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Scratching in sentence

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Napkin in my lap, half-bites, chew with my mouth closed, no scratching.
One was scratching at the end of the stick, another child listened at the other end.
Maybe you're scratching yourself, but you're not doing anything.
And I know all of you are scratching your head: "A senior citizens' home?
We are scratching the surface in our ability as humans to communicate and invent together, and while the sciences teach us how to build things, it's the humanities that teach us what to build and why to build them.
But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human consumption, and that I was only scratching the surface, and that right the way up the food supply chain, in supermarkets, greengrocers, bakers, in our homes, in factories and farms, we were hemorrhaging out food.
But we're just one company, and this is just scratching the surface.
And I found myself sort of scratching at the walls of life, as if I was trying to find a way out into a wider space beyond.
His friends may praise his decision, but underneath, they're scratching their heads.
Our rovers, like Curiosity, crawl across its surface, scratching for clues as to the origins of life as we know it.
What this is doing is merely telling us that we are scratching the surface.
You're scratching your head right now, aren't you?
Our automatic scratching response would dislodge anything harmful that's potentially lurking on our skin, like a harmful sting, a biting insect, or the tendrils of a poisonous plant.
We spent a lot of long hours in office, in cafés, sometimes even in bars, scratching out heads and saying, "Where are the solutions, how are we going to solve this problem?"
So here we are, after 20 years of essentially studying these animals, genome mapping, chin scratching, and thousands of amputations and thousands of regenerations, we still don't fully understand how these animals do what they do.
Now, this third principle, I think is the one that you're probably scratching your head over.
I didn't stop scratching a single day while I was in the jungle.
Remember, this tradition comes to us not from the mists of Avalon, back in time, but further still, before we were scratching out these stories on papyrus, or we were doing the pictographs on walls in moist, damp caves.
And I was never particularly good at the violin, but I used to sit at the back of the second violin section in the Hastings Youth Orchestra, scratching away.
We were all scratching and marveling at this symphonic sound that we were making that was so much more beautiful and powerful than anything we would ever have managed on our own.
And I'm just scratching the surface here, because the deeper we go, the uglier it gets, I guarantee you.
And this really sort of had me scratching my head for a while.
And on a wider scale, it amazes me how people go through life just scratching the surface of their potential, just doing three or four or five percent of what they're truly capable of.
We are really only scratching the surface of what is possible today, and with the community's input, and also with the involvement of developers and researchers from around the world, we hope that you can help us to shape where the technology goes from here.
And when we first heard this result inside the Foundation, I have to admit, Bill and I were scratching our heads a little bit and we were saying, "But who's going to volunteer for this procedure?"
Filled with archaic Shakespearic English language in a 21st century Australian setting, this film lives to disappoint and leave you scratching your head.
And in comparison to Saddam it is simply a feeble scratching at the skin.
Unfortunately, we're left scratching our heads wondering how the dim-witted maniac played by scenery-chewing Jack Palance made it as far as 1960.
I must, in light of the encomia of praise for this flick from viewers, assume once again the role of the turd in the punchbowl, as Lowell Weicker used to say, I am scratching my head at the sheer number of laudatory comments.
I had to keep scratching my head.
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