Your note was the only scrap.

The only tiny scrap of luck I had was that he likely thought me dead.

By debate's end, the only scrap of "Send In the Clowns" not mangled by the Democrats seemed to be, "Well, maybe next year."

The only scrap of real news I can imagine would be word that Matt Underwood had decided to run for re-election and grab a second term.

It's perhaps the only scrap of metal in the gym that is both patented as exercise equipment and copyrighted as a sculpture.

As far as we can tell, we're the only scrap of baryonic matter in all that immensity.

The only scraps of man-made sound that he detected were fragments of a program of big-band music that faded in and out on a five-second cycle.

The only scrap of evidence turned up so far is a passage in a local history book, published in 1948, that speaks of "a copper box containing documents and souvenirs."

In fact, the only scrap of summer sky visible to Will was so beclouded by smoke, it looked stormy.

The only scrap of comfort there was, came unexpectedly from Bombur.