How to Use scot-free in a Sentence

scot-free

adjective
  • But that doesn’t mean your boyfriend gets off scot-free.
    Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Craig doesn’t get off scot-free.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • None of the officials saw it, though, and O’Nien walked away scot-free.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Four years, scot-free on the injury slate, three-year captain, superlative awards.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
  • But not everyone escaped the attack scot-free.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And people tend to believe that some rich people got off scot-free in this -- in the Epstein case, the Epstein files.
    ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • That is a better outcome than asking Ream to play the rest of the match on tenterhooks and Almiron getting away scot-free.
    Ben Burrows, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • Gen might have gotten away scot-free from the sheets incident in terms of optics — no one questions her involvement, even though her job description includes housekeeping — but karma hounds her during the first day of the charter.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 July 2026

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