Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scatted
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The black-and-white video featured special appearances by his wife Hailey and their son Jack as Bieber crooned.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Junior Grace Simmons escaped an early jam to set the tone for a low-scoring complete game from the circle, and Aniyah Bailey had a birthday to remember by anchoring the team’s contagious offensive showing with two doubles and five RBI in a 3-for-4 day.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2026
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Better still, leave workers’ rates alone and expand the base to all forms of compensation and to investment income — the income that has escaped the program for nine decades.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Soon, the tape popped, hummed, then clicked off.—
Adeline Goss,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
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An employee since 2002, Taylor led The Star through a set of swinging back doors and into a concrete room with Southern Pride and Ole Hickory smokers, which quietly hummed and buzzed.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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Sometimes, a candle or lamp is also lit overnight to help warm the souls of the dearly departed.—
Andrea Romano,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Dec. 2025
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However, the smoking gun was the two pieces of iron pyrite, sometimes called fool’s gold, which can be used to strike flint, creating sparks that could have lit tinder such as dry fungus.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
10 Dec. 2025
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About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Original scored with a low blow and absconded a bull rope from El Grande II.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Vandals stole the control stick out of an R train in December while it was parked underground in southern Brooklyn, a month after an unknown thief absconded with two-way radios from a specialized work train parked in the Coney Island Yard.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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Angel-Martinez, Castillo and Pineda stopped at a church parking lot, and Canoy drove past; prosecutors said Alaniz Pineda got out of the car and fired two shots at Canoy’s vehicle.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Dec. 2025
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Two people who lived inside the home got out safely.—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
10 Dec. 2025
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