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Example sentences for "scores"

Lexicographically close words:
score; scoreboard; scored; scorer; scorers; scoria; scoriaceous; scoriae; scorification; scorifier
  1. At scores of tables were the most heterogeneous collection of people that Audrey had ever seen; men and women, girls and old men, even a few children with their mothers.

  2. We're here," said Audrey to Miss Ingate after scores of stairs.

  3. She had the freedom of Flank Hall, as of scores of other houses, at all times of day.

  4. He smiled at her, and she saw scores and scores of excellent qualities in his smile; she could not believe that he had any defect whatever.

  5. The conductor's scores had got themselves mixed up.

  6. The soldier who had passed so many hours on the battle-field-who had breathed the breath of scores of dying men, of wounded comrades, and bleeding foes, was a child now.

  7. Scores of German homes in England were wrecked and looted; hundreds of Germans maltreated.

  8. I take this, my first general opportunity, to return thanks to the scores of friends in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere for the information they have so generously furnished and the favors they have so kindly extended me.

  9. The musicians prefer the scores of their own composers, and everything foreign is to a degree offensive, to be tolerated only as a matter of variety.

  10. There are in London scores and scores of men and women who live by getting up bogus charities and sham schemes for the relief of the poor.

  11. There is a Bill Sikes and Nancy in scores of these tenements, and the brutal blow is ever the accompaniment of the brutal oath.

  12. Truly, Great Britain scores something of tenderness from the breezes that blow, by being "set in the steely seas," in the path of the north and the west and the east and the south winds!

  13. He could sit back and laugh to himself at how easy it was to square up old scores from a distance.

  14. Instantly scores of brilliant incandescent electric lamps were put in circuit and blazed out, illuminating the room as if by day.

  15. A spacious lawn, of the brightest and most beautiful verdure, dotted over with noble oaks, and tenanted by some scores of fallow-deer, stretched far and wide on every side.

  16. It commenced with a severity scarce inferior to that which had preceded it, and again scores of his sheep were buried in the snow.

  17. On they went and down, scores falling on right and left.

  18. Here the brave Shaw, with scores of his black warriors went down, fighting desperately.

  19. The clay subsoil was broken and piled in large pieces, often several yards in diameter, which afterwards protected scores of Federals when surrounded in the crater.

  20. It is scarcely too much to say that the scores of Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss could not have been written, had Paganini never lived.

  21. Compare the scores of the classical composers with those of the most modern writers, and see what an enormous difference there is in the work for the strings--from the violins to the double-basses.

  22. This single flood has already destroyed hundreds of lives and swept away scores and hundreds of homes, and obliterated millions of dollars' worth of property.

  23. Perry Raymond, who in the old days had built many scores of flatboats, was now too old to undertake an active enterprise.

  24. Scores of the dead and wounded were found there the day after the massacre by the men from some of our gunboats, who were permitted to go on shore, and collect the wounded, and bury the dead.

  25. During the mob, the appearance of rebel organizations on the ground with marks and badges, and scores of similar incidents, show that the plot was as deliberate as it was infernal.

  26. The fact is that inside the building scores of Volunteers were seen in every stage of intoxication, and that from 10.

  27. I have been there scores and scores of nights alone distributing tracts, and no disturbance has taken place.

  28. The 'varsity was in fine fettle today and ripped the second team wide open for three scores in the two periods played.

  29. Two hours before had anyone suggested that it would be satisfied with anything less than three scores it would have derided the notion.

  30. If Chambers scores it'll be from the field.

  31. The explosion would drive jagged fragments of iron and sometimes heated bullets through scores of men within a radius of fully one hundred yards.

  32. As the train came around the curve of the mountain, however, the scout and his men, who were scattered through the train, were horrified to see scores of tents showing white through the morning mist.

  33. Scores of bicyclists of both sexes sped over the asphalt up and down, some now and then deviating to make way for a lumbering yellow 'bus or a hurrying carriage.

  34. Scores of men sat talking at the tables, smoking, devouring sandwiches, upturning their mugs of beer over the capacious receptacles provided by nature.

  35. Scores of quotations from prominent Federalists expressive of the same views might be adduced.

  36. Currency" decreased in quantity; unemployment was amazing; scores of thousands of men begged for work; throngs of the idle camped near cities and subsisted on charity.

  37. Only three of the scores of Congregationalist ministers in New Hampshire were Republicans.

  38. Scores of electric lights made it bright.

  39. Some were hurrying about with galleys of type, with large metal frames; some were wheeling tables here and there; scores of men and a few women were seated at the machines.

  40. Here again were scores of desks with men seated at them, every man with a typewriter and a telegraph instrument before him.

  41. Scores of wagons loaded with newspapers were rushing away from the several newspaper buildings.

  42. There were scores of hungry applicants at the riverside and dozens outside the printing-office.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.