Does the phrase 'scrape pass' make sense:
Such as in the following paragraph:
"Yesterday, while jogging, I turned a corner, and I almost hit a bus. "I veered to the left as quickly as I could, and the bus just SCRAPE PASSED me."
Note: By 'scrape pass', I mean that the bus just passed a few inches from me.
If you wrote scraped past then it would be okay. Or you could use scraped by . You can also use scraped past in a different setting.
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If you wrote scraped past then it would be okay. Or you could use scraped by.
You can also use scraped past in a different setting.
Team A narrowly scraped past/by Team B by scoring a goal in last five seconds.
Oddly enough, I can't seem to find scrape past in the few dictionaries that I checked, though I do find scrape by. B