Though nicked and deeply scratched from its travels, it richly cradled a thick mattress.

She had been deeply scratched by a cave lion as a small girl, leaving her left thigh scarred with four straight lines.

Similarly, when the surface of chemically strengthened glass is deeply scratched, this area loses its additional strength.

The hood of the car was deeply scratched.

Blaine's cornea was deeply scratched in the incident and he needs surgery.

Two circles were deeply scratched into the patina of the horn.

The container was deeply scratched and furrowed by violent contact with other metal, and there was one dent in particular that was at least six inches deep.

Sneaking out of camp to get the milk, Dorothy is deeply scratched by barbed wire; Violet develops diarrhoea.

His blood, the blood of others ... stained with sap, deeply scratched by sculper claws, even burned by skik poison.

Winifred the Otter winced as Sister May applied poultices and herbs to her deeply scratched back.