1.   It was hurriedly written on a scrap of papyrus which had been used and scraped clean several times before.

2.   A hotel-builder will find a suitable oceanfront site, then come in and scrape it clean.

3.   Hundreds of thousands of patients each year have procedures to open clogged arteries by scraping them clean with a sharp blade or squashing plaque with tiny balloons.

4.   Most of what remained of the Murrah Building has been carried away, the earth scraped clean.

5.   Once the Champagne stops flowing and the caviar tins are scraped clean, you can serve anything from anywhere.

6.   Remove bones from water, scrape them clean and set aside.

7.   The European influences that drive our taste palettes and decorating habits are too gilded and overstuffed to adapt easily to a stage scraped clean of tchotchkes and bibelots.

8.   The windows will at last be scraped clean.

9.   The windows had been painted black during World War II, for security reasons, and nobody bothered to scrape them clean afterward.

10.   The bark had been scraped clean as they rolled down the mountains to the river and onto the sea.