They moved so fluidly that their blades whispered over the ice rather than scratching at it.

The blade slashed the strap of his shoulder rig, pricked blood through the sleeve of his blacksuit and scratched his hand before his fingers closed in on the bony wrist.

Finally, she was horizontal--or must have been because blades of wild onion were scratching her temple and her cheek.

While they are too hard to cut with a knife, a pen-knife blade will scratch these rocks and produce a pale grey powder.

Because of the high content of soft clay minerals, a pen-knife blade will scratch slate and produce a pale grey powder.

When dry, these blades could scratch, prickle like needles, even cut.

The woman's blade scratched over the Executioner's right cheekbone as she stabbed at him, but never reached his flesh.

That was no lord's proud weapon with a silvered, jeweled hilt, but a serviceable blade nicked and scratched by long use.

The blade of Mitsuyama's dagger barely scratched his right side, slashing his robe instead of his flesh.

That's a soft metal, but the blade only scratched it.