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Example sentences for "scored"

Lexicographically close words:
scorching; scordar; scordium; score; scoreboard; scorer; scorers; scores; scoria; scoriaceous
  1. We, or rather my messmate, cut a rib from off the aforementioned beef, scored the flesh across, and placed the bone in the centre of a beautifully clear fire which had been specially prepared.

  2. Have these scored across with a sharp knife, and divided at the joints.

  3. After this the interview proceeded merrily, and the Gul-Bibi proceeded to chaff her husband quite openly, telling him that he had been cleverly tricked and scored off.

  4. The British officer commanding had fought ably and had averted disaster, but the losses had been sufficient to create a rumour that Juma Khan had scored an exaggerated victory.

  5. When somebody traded stale eggs and garden-truck for good groceries, and the storekeeper saw he couldn't make trouble about it without losing a customer, he said nothing but scored it down against the man.

  6. The latter's face was, for the most part, inscrutable, but now and then he made a sign of languid agreement, as if to admit that his antagonist had scored a point.

  7. More elaborate, more beautiful, and scored for a fuller orchestra than any others of the one hundred and twenty or thereabouts which he composed, the Salomon set also bears marks of the devout and pious spirit in which Haydn ever laboured.

  8. The overture of this opera was composed and scored in less than six hours.

  9. Cap'n Sproul, walking to his office the next forenoon, mentally scored one on the right side of his calculations.

  10. When he heard Mr. Luce in the village square and looked out on him, he scored two, still on the right side.

  11. He put his hand on Smith's shoulder and began to talk to him; and when he finished, the thermometer had scored seven minutes!

  12. On his first shot he scored three caroms; on his second shot he scored four caroms; and on his third shot he missed as simple a carom as could be devised.

  13. The boys explained the game to me, and they also explained to me that there would be an hour's play, and that the player who scored the fewest ten-strikes in the hour would have to provide oysters and beer for the combination.

  14. He scored a failure--and began to undress.

  15. The joy and the noise exceeded that which the great gathering at Madison Square produced when Sutton scored five hundred points at the eighteen-inch game, on a world-famous night last winter.

  16. His fury increased with each failure as he scored it.

  17. Indeed, after a number of downs, and a close call from having a touchdown scored upon them, Chester only barely managed to hold the hungry enemy at bay until the referee's whistle announced that the first period had expired.

  18. Hopkins, quarterback for Chester, scored a touchdown in this period that carried the crowd off its feet with excitement, it was so cleverly done.

  19. Before six minutes had passed they had scored a safety from their opponents, giving them two points to start with.

  20. But this fact was universally accepted: the School Eleven would play carefully till they had scored a hundred runs and so passed the Masters' total, after which they would adopt forcing tactics and lift the score over 300.

  21. Thirty minutes of that last hour passed, and in them forty runs were scored at a cost of three wickets.

  22. Never mind, you stood up splendidly to the first two straight balls and scored boundaries off both.

  23. During the intermission between the halves Stenton did his best to hearten his boys, but it was a poor best, for he felt pretty certain that they were bound to be scored against heavily in the next half.

  24. But the Boxford boy was on the ball and had scored a touchback!

  25. Boxford persistently hit the line, and within five minutes of the play had scored the inevitable touchdown.

  26. Ned Clavering scored the winning point by kicking the goal.

  27. I have often crossed the batter up and one day I had Cobb 3 and 2 and he was all set to murder a fast one and I dinked a slow one up there to him and the lucky stiff hit it on the end of his bat just inside third base and 2 men scored on it.

  28. As he kept his mouth firmly closed the seniors failed to catch him there, but they put a black mark down nevertheless, so that within the first five minutes of his initiation Frank had had four points scored against him.

  29. As it drew near to eleven o'clock Harvard and Cornell gradually lost their grip upon their chance for first place, and at last, when it was time for the great tug, it proved that Princeton and Yale scored exactly the same number of points.

  30. He stopped Jack, but Harvard scored in the first half, and Yale didn't get a thing.

  31. Why, those dubs actually scored a goal on Troop One!

  32. The regulars scored a touchdown and, returning to the center of the field, began the process anew.

  33. But the very ease with which goal after goal was scored brought self-confidence and cock-sureness instead of wisdom.

  34. For the first five innings not a hit was scored against him.

  35. The regulars scored another touchdown, but it took longer than the first.

  36. Their opponents had notoriously the weakest team in the entire scout league, and already two goals had been scored against it.

  37. To be sure, several players made first on various errors, but none got beyond third, and in the meantime Troop Five had scored two runs.

  38. Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders, and rocks scored by drifted icebergs and coast-ice, plainly reveal a former cold period.

  39. It is clear, therefore, that Mrs. Pryse-Rice is to be counted among those who have attained more or less to the ideal they have set before them in breeding, and she has beside scored high honours at Peterborough.

  40. If a player play out of turn or with the wrong ball, no point made after the mistake can be scored unless as specified below.

  41. He ignited all the three and threw one, then either the second or the third burst as it was leaving his hand, shattered one hand and most of the other, destroyed one eye and laid open his cheek, and scored his breast and leg.

  42. In the first quarter of an hour, and before she had received her deadly injury, the Emden had scored several important hits on the Sydney.

  43. Mrs. Winchester, triumphantly, as if having scored a point against the new religion.

  44. That knocked his eye out," murmured Kate, in an aside to St. Quentin, but he observed that she looked singularly pleased when Carolina scored a point.

  45. It was no small thing to have scored a success like this.

  46. During several successive days they scored alternate games, and the London chess world consequently measured Morphy's powers by this antagonist.

  47. It was soon found useless for any one to play Morphy even, as he scored almost every game.

  48. They then agreed that the match should consist of thirteen games; in other words, he should be victor who first scored seven; and, as neither of them desired any stake but honor, the preliminaries were quickly arranged.

  49. Ultimately the former recovered from the effects of his voyage, and the proportion was established of 19 to 7, the last ten or twelve games being scored by Morphy almost without a break.

  50. Morphy now scored the fifth, sixth, and seventh games, thus having won five consecutively.

  51. The Londoners scored the third, and this game is considered to be one of the finest and most brilliant contests by correspondence on record.

  52. Morphy scored seven parties one after the other, which constituted him victor.

  53. De Riviere certainly made the best show against Morphy of all the players in Paris, having scored one game in good style, and having lost at least one which he ought to have gained.

  54. First game scored by the American, the Manchester amateur thirsting for revenge.

  55. The third and fourth games Morphy scored in beautiful style.

  56. The little girl ran about within the four lines and scored for herself the rooms which they would make.

  57. First, with his heel, he scored in the dirt the lines of his house; they might as well have a big one, he replied to Dolly's delighted exclamations.

  58. Anderson scored a couple of fours, and then went out "leg before.

  59. He was exceedingly pleased that on this occasion he had scored at his expense.

  60. We never picked up this lion, for a wind arose in the night and blurred the spoor, and he had not died in the long grass, for we burnt it; his loss was always scored against me.

  61. I once shot a rhino which was terribly scored about the face and neck, with several of the abrasions still bleeding.

  62. Thus she scored over Gladys and Cora, whose looks and manners were unimpressive, lymphatic Bella being of course outclassed by everybody.

  63. Clowes had scored five tries off his own bat, and Trevor, if he had not fed his wing so conscientiously, would probably have scored an equal number.

  64. To quote the Sportsman of the following day, "Peteiro crowded in a lot of work with both hands, and scored a popular victory".

  65. Play had only been in progress six minutes when Keith, taking a pass on the twenty-five line, slipped past Attell, ran round the back, and scored between the posts.

  66. I suppose," said Stanning in the passage, "you think you've scored off me.

  67. The fellows thought I had let the house down, and it got about, and the other houses scored off them, so I had rather a rotten time.

  68. And then the house scored its one success.

  69. And this year they held us all the time, and it was only a fluke that we scored at all.

  70. In this way only twenty-two points were scored after half-time.

  71. How many tries was it that you scored this afternoon?

  72. That was a distinction; yet, looking at the day as a whole, he had scored less than he expected.

  73. VI The following Saturday fortnight the Bittleton Press scored what journalists call a “scoop” at the expense of the rival and Radical organ, the Advertiser.


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