"No more winky-dinky," Albert warned me of my old habit of begging random scraps of material off of him to wear as wraps and bandeaux.

As well as scribbling ideas in her notebooks, and on random scraps of paper, what she found most productive was to walk around the countryside, talking aloud to herself, thinking through her plots.

From now on, Dale will be lucky to get random scraps from the state's table.

Her shoes had worn entirely through at the sole; she had wrapped them with random scraps of leather and strips of fabric torn from her shift, so her feet looked like bundles of filthy rags.

Freud the elder was, after all, the original spin doctor, adept at weaving scientific theories out of random scraps of behavior: dreams, slips of the tongue, jokes and your mother.

Only a few random scraps of the ship remained floating.

Her smaller "Variations" have something in common with Surrealist collage, using seemingly random scraps of imagery to weave an implicit narrative that is part dream, part memory.

The humans brought examples of hyper-fiber--random scraps of battered ship armor, mostly.

And that something called Islamic art will change, for Western viewers, from displays of random scraps to a lived experience, complex, sublime, intensely felt.

She dressed again in her random scraps, for whatever good it did her, and came to him, shivering.