1.   The little boy scratched lines in the dirt with a stick.

2.   But Gephardt quickly scratched a line on the ground and dared Republicans to cross it.

3.   Her parents have scratched a line in the tile, and this performance proved she can deal with the buzz around her.

4.   Hitchcock, who has been skating five lines in practice, scratched the line of Bill Huard, Robert Petrovicky and Grant Marshall.

5.   It is just steel and stone, a rough line scratched across an immense and largely empty landscape.