scratching

IPA: skrˈætʃɪŋ

The act or sound of something being scratched.
A pork scratching.
Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.

Examples of "scratching" in Sentences

But it is a scratching from the right direction … from the bottom up.
I think I hear skeletons scratching from the inside of a closet door ...
They have to mark their territory, after all, and scratching is one method.
But in scratching it, he dropped it in the snow and could not pick it up again.
This corruption and back-scratching is just another example of the old politics.
Most of that ‘chin scratching’ has the effect of hiding evidence of the Conservative Nanny State.
In his pauses, they hear some provocative scratching from the padlocked wooden crates stacked behind him.
I recently bought a microfiber couch and loveseat and my cat has absolutely no interest in scratching it.