One of Mr Levy's first jobs was to scrape up the money to honour unpaid wages.

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It's going to dredge the Hudson River to scrape up poisonous chemicals it dumped there years ago.

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Unless parents can scrape up their own resources, the government tells them what school their children must attend.

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Bring the liquid to a boil and using a wooden spoon, scrape up all the browned bits that have stuck to the bottom and sides of the pan.

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And when victims of gun violence die, their families must then scrape up the cash to pay for a funeral, compensate for the lost income, and continue on with their lives.

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Cuts and razor burn are all part of the raw deal as they scrape their faces up to 700 times per shave, chopping away 27 feet (8.2 metres) of hair over a lifetime.

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In terror I stumbled up with a harsh scrape of hangers, pulled wildly at the edge of the door, burst outside.

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Set up a crawler that can scrape some webpages and parse some basic data.

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Normally, baroque artists covering up an existing fresco would scrape it off, art historian Fernando Lopez told the Associated Press.

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