Examples of 'scratched the surface' in a sentence

Meaning of "scratched the surface"

This phrase means to only superficially or partially explore or understand something. It suggests that someone has only touched the surface of a subject or issue, without delving deeper or fully comprehending its complexities or nuances
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  • simple past tense and past participle of scratch the surface

How to use "scratched the surface" in a sentence

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scratched the surface
We have not even scratched the surface.
Scratched the surface of her secrecy.
You have only scratched the surface.
Scratched the surface.
You have just scratched the surface.
There is a lot to get to in this discussion and we barely scratched the surface.
You have not scratched the surface.
We spent all afternoon wandering the grounds and still hardly scratched the surface.
We have only scratched the surface here.
We have been here three days and barely scratched the surface.
We barely scratched the surface in three days.
In this module we have only scratched the surface.
I barely scratched the surface in three days.
Researchers have only scratched the surface.
I barely scratched the surface with that woman.

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In fact we have only scratched the surface.
I only scratched the surface of games.
And we probably just scratched the surface.
I merely scratched the surface by playing some of my favorite artists.
But we have barely scratched the surface.
We just scratched the surface of the collection during our visit.
We have only just scratched the surface.
You only scratched the surface of what you were truly capable of.
And we have hardly scratched the surface.
We only scratched the surface of this ancient and fascinating city.
You have barely scratched the surface.
I have only scratched the surface of the myriad activities that can be conducted successfully.
Yet we have merely scratched the surface.
We have just scratched the surface of everything that is possible with blockchain.
And they had barely scratched the surface.
We have only scratched the surface on what the mobile web is capable of.
It should have at least have scratched the surface.
We have barely scratched the surface of what it can do.
I am afraid your articles have just scratched the surface.
The man never scratched the surface of life.
We were here for three days and we barely scratched the surface.
We have only scratched the surface of the universe.
In this area we have barely scratched the surface.
I have only scratched the surface of its uses.
I have a strong hunch we have not scratched the surface yet.
I have only scratched the surface of this universe.
All of them only slightly scratched the surface.
I have barely scratched the surface on what went wrong here.
And our best shot barely scratched the surface.
We have only scratched the surface of buyers out there.
I am lucky enough the bullet just scratched the surface.
I have just scratched the surface on this topic.
We realize that this has only scratched the surface.
We have merely scratched the surface of its potential.
But we have still really only scratched the surface.

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Examples of using Scratched
We have not even scratched the surface
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Examples of using Surface
An uneven surface increases the risk of overturning
Where ϑ is the measured test surface temperature
All feasible surface and subsurface ECVs
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