She looked at the big cat now and moved to sit by him, her hand scratching around his ears as he purred.

The water level rose, lapped at the symbols scratched around the edge, and stopped.

She scratched the area around it, knowing that the scab wasn't ready to come off yet.

She scratched around his ears and deep in his mane.

There were a couple of two-legged rats scratching around your door when I came up, about half an hour ago.

Dull army officer, scratching around the desert looking for terrorists.

Almost absentmindedly, he reached up to scratch the skin around the chip implanted into the side of his head.

He just stood there scratching around the splints on his broken arm.

With their boots skidding, the brothers scratched around a corner.