Examples of scot-free in a Sentence
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But while Aube may have protected its status, not everyone got off scot-free.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Apr. 2025
Just this week the FBI agent in charge of the Budapest office gunned down a corrupt Slovakian chief of police and got off scot-free without even causing an international incident!
—Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Thanks to them the attack mastermind escaped scot-free and soon those who that day desecrated the Capitol and battered the police will be pardoned and will leap snarling back into society.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
And with all of the lawsuits and court appearances and everything, indictments that he's undergone over the last couple of years, he's gotten away scot-free.
—Tim Marchman, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
Assad walked away scot-free while the U.S. and its allies turned their attention to the black flag of ISIS.
—Ian Pannell, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
Those tariffs, if they're not used properly, are just going to raise costs on ordinary Americans while the billionaires get off scot-free.
—NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
The season ends with the mercenary getting away scot-free after successfully pulling off a gambit that forces the MI5 to release him via blackmail.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
If a lawyer is hired to defend a company that just poisoned thousands of innocent people, the lawyer’s job is, if possible, to get that company off scot-free.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Apr. 2025
Just this week the FBI agent in charge of the Budapest office gunned down a corrupt Slovakian chief of police and got off scot-free without even causing an international incident!
—Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Thanks to them the attack mastermind escaped scot-free and soon those who that day desecrated the Capitol and battered the police will be pardoned and will leap snarling back into society.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
And with all of the lawsuits and court appearances and everything, indictments that he's undergone over the last couple of years, he's gotten away scot-free.
—Tim Marchman, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
Assad walked away scot-free while the U.S. and its allies turned their attention to the black flag of ISIS.
—Ian Pannell, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
Those tariffs, if they're not used properly, are just going to raise costs on ordinary Americans while the billionaires get off scot-free.
—NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
The season ends with the mercenary getting away scot-free after successfully pulling off a gambit that forces the MI5 to release him via blackmail.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
If a lawyer is hired to defend a company that just poisoned thousands of innocent people, the lawyer’s job is, if possible, to get that company off scot-free.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Scot-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scot-free. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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