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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scroop .
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Examples
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Sister Hetton had pale skin and black hair scrooped back from her face and balled into a kind of doorknob on the back of her head.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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No dewy-complexioned flower - girl with wide eyes and moist, parted lips stood there, but a skinny woman edging into late middle age-flat chest, flat bum, tight pale lips, hair scrooped so tight against her skull that it fair screamed.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The engine started and the car moved forward, but the buckled wheel scrooped against the frame.
On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957
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The engine started and the car moved forward, but the buckled wheel scrooped against the frame.
On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1936
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They heard the car snort and move away as the heavy bolts scrooped in their ancient grooves of stone.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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We could count the rivets in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops of dew gathered below them.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I look for one who don't paint her lips and keeps her hair scrooped back against her head. "
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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