Examples of use of SCRABBLES
1. She scrabbles around for the plastic carrier bag where she keeps her mother‘s medications.
2. As the international community scrabbles for a way out of this crisis, unable so far even to agree on a ceasefire, discussions are already being held about a beefed–up international presence or "stabilisation force", as Kofi Annan put it.
3. Her story counterpoints the lives of an embittered old judge, a survivor of British colonial rule, with those of his loyal cook and the cook‘s son, one of the immigrants who scrabbles for subsistence on developing world pay in New York.
4. So we have the energy crisis as the world scrabbles for deposits of carbon; the disappearance of species as the rainforests are destroyed to grow food; the rise of Islamist militancy in parts of the world where the population of young men is growing far faster than jobs and resources; water wars; the coming pandemics. . . and of course, the lurches in temperature and wind speed as the planet hots up.