Sentences with phrase «scrabbling around»

So what happens if the trap goes off one night and you can hear the sound of something not dead scrabbling around attached to the trap?

Just wide enough to fit in a neat row of spray bottles, it will save you space in other cupboards and you'll be able to grab the right cleaning product at a glance — so there'll be no more scrabbling around at the back of a cabinet for the elusive window spray.

This left me scrabbling around a dark room searching for a light switch like some sort of caveman, if cavemen had nice houses and electric lights.

Before we get to the power, let us just tell you about one brilliant feature: the days of scrabbling around looking for a wire to charge up your phone could soon be at an end thanks to the Nexus 6's wireless charging feature.

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Apple is reportedly two years ahead of its Android rivals when it comes to the technology behind Face ID, and that's left the competition scrabbling around trying to find an alternative.

Disappointingly, however, this proved not to be the case and instead, Cornwall has left legal practitioners scrabbling around for any clear principles regarding how the tests for ordinary residence should be applied and how the deeming provisions should work in practice.

This acceleration has been promised «just around the corner» for a long time now, I'm happy to give people like Hansen a bit of a pass on his 1984 work because it was so groundbreaking (and substantially correct), but it's now starting to feel like people are scrabbling around trying to find excuses.

Why are you scrabbling around trying to find something to explain this AGWSF claim?

There's plenty of scrabbling around on hands - and - knees, searching for hidden exits, and the whole house is suitably maze - like, so you never feel comfortable.

For the story to be any good, Microsoft must now be scrabbling around furiously to cobble together some sort of a comeback in the hopes of not losing ground to their competitor ahead of conventions season.

I think this is an issue that a lot of the game faces; when not engaging in turn - based combat or scrabbling around for supplies in a settlement, the caravan moves from one picturesque side of the screen to the other, flying their colourful banner and walking at a pace that would get anyone killed just from boredom.

The beauty of this feature is that you can sit with your tablet on your lap and control your TV without scrabbling around for the remote: it's a one - stop entertainment shop.

He had one of those thermometer - style tire gauges with him and he was scrabbling around the hearse on his haunches, testing the tire pressures.

They describe local schools as «scrabbling around for any form of cash like a desperate person checking down the side of their sofa for the odd pound coin or two».

«Tummy time» or scrabbling around the floor is emphasised for infants who are not yet walking with 3 hrs of daily activity for those who are.

The school reported on its work in the first and third editions of the LLEAP (Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy) dialogue series, and Cawsey says they were was still «scrabbling around» for little grants when the regional education director asked if Rooty Hill High wanted to host a Confucius Classroom.

We'd both made our way out of the laboratory not by any glorious trumpet call to our real careers but by scrabbling around for other means to exist.

That's not the way our grown - up, classical world seems to work, and physicists have been scrabbling around for the best part of a century to explain the puzzling mismatch.

The mornings might still be early but at least don't involve scrabbling around for water bottles and trainers and we have time to play tennis and football in the garden, devour endless ice creams and picnic to our hearts content.

It seems incongruous to me that one of the top 20 richest clubs in the world (in terms of revenue) and one that boasts how it is in the top 10 of highest attendances in Europe should so regularly find itself scrabbling around in the bargain basement of the loan market.

I'm loathed to predict a cup run, because I feel that is something you do when you realise the league isn't going to go your way and you're scrabbling around for an alternative hope to cling to, i.e. the sort of thing Spurs and Liverpool do.

With hours left in the transfer window we appear to be scrabbling around for scraps.

With Suning unwilling to invest new money into the club until the summer, Piero Ausilio and Walter Sabatini are scrabbling around in the last 48 hours of the transfer window trying to recoup as much as possible from player sales.

The desperate scrabbling around is a little unedifying, but goals are goals and strikers will be strikers.

Or could it be that teams like Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern ect just get to work on the next transfers as soon as the window shuts, and that is why we are still scrabbling around on the last day?

So the like of Chelsea, City and United are likely to be top 3 with a few others scrabbling around for the top 6 places with an eye on the prized top 4.

Either grab a pack of disposable floor mats and keep them under your buggy to pop under a high chair or just be happy to scrabble around on your knees at the end of a meal cleaning up the bigger bits of debris.

So that left Philip Hammond no option but to scrabble around in the undergrowth.»

You can say anything about art, but science is cumulative and people say, «I can't understand what's at the top of that, so I'm just going to scrabble around in the mud outside the castle and build my own shitty version of it out of reassuring platitudes and borrowed terms.»

«You'd have a couple of minutes to scrabble around.»

As studios scrabble around for well - established material that can possibly be spun into a lucrative big - screen franchise, the videogame seriesNeed for Speed must have seemed like a no - brainer.

While the rest of us scrabble around to find change for the pay - and - display, they're inevitably crouching behind a BMW, sweating profusely and generally hoping not to be shot by the stalking goons in bay 3.

Not only does this design deter dogs but it also helps protect your carpet from cat litter as cats love to dig and scrabble around in their litter boxes.

There's no need to scrabble around trying to find and forward booking confirmations every time you need them because you've already saved them in the HEHA!

Regardless, while Microsoft scrabble around for a press release, lets go over the details.

I scrabbled around in my flu - addled brain trying to work out who Kim was — didn't recognise the voice AT ALL — and started stalling.

But it's buried in the attic somewhere and my back hurts too much to scrabble around looking for it.

Go for solar - powered lights so you won't have to scrabble around for extension cables or batteries.

And then I scrabble around for something else to ask so she can give me another one - word answer.

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Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

Idea... Hawaiiguest... why don't you and ummm Tom Tom get together and play scrabble... then you can sit around til the end of time laughing at all the dumb people and tell eachother how important and intelligent you are...??

«Two days ago when I took her out to measure her, she was scrabbling and snapping and turning around and everything.

I've really been loving the look of all the scrabble tile crafts floating around the internet, so that's what inspired this super cute and easy craft.

As she did on «Mad Men,» Hendricks does a fine job of quietly showing how much the men around her character disappoint her, and how difficult it has been to keep any kind of optimism in her hard - scrabble life.

Then Weykopf directs us to use the car's hill - descent control to scrabble down a rocky slope at a carefully judged 8 km / h (5 mph), before she sends us blasting around a twisting dirt course, and finally splashing through 16 inches of muddy water.

Online can be a bit of a crazy caper, as the sheer number of players will often find you scrabbling your way around the track not only for a finishing position, but merely to keep your vehicle intact for as long as possible.

After tens of thousands of years of scrabbling by, spreading around the planet, and developing tools of increasing sophistication, humans are in surge mode and have only just started to become aware that something profound is going on.

plus the convenience and reading the news etc wherever I want is handy... the shape and size is wonderful around the house — not to mention my kids fighting over it — besides their games, we play scrabble on it and pass the tablet back and forth.