How to Use by the score in a Sentence

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• The White Sox leave three in the ninth, and the A’s hang on to the win it by the score of 5-3.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• Of course, some of that may have been skewed by the score.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• Near the Cedar Run trail in the Whiteoak Canyon area, there are waterfalls by the score.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2021
• Despite this, the team was able to defeat the Jets by the score of 30-27 this past Monday night.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• On the other hand, the number of EV start-ups that are forced out of the game might be counted by the score.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2021
• Large tech companies in those cities turn out millionaires by the score.
  — oregonlive, 6 May 2022
• Or just to get carried along by the score from Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha as Frodo frolics obliviously on the edge of war.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• San Diego’s main rival, Seattle, owns two championships and eliminated the Legion last June by the score of 43-19.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• Healthcare staffing firms say that candidates in those fields are rejecting offers to move to red states by the score, according to a survey by the Washington Post.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Council approves denser, taller, market-rate housing by the score, and housing costs have climbed dramatically.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
• Corporations by the score, even the hundreds, have been happy to sign on to rhetorical displays of good citizenship.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• In the previous renderings, one image showed the stadium's interior with a small scoreboard in the corner that had Buffalo beating the New York Jets by the score of 24-3.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• Then, they got hit by an unexpected shortage of semiconductors used by the score in modern vehicles.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2022
• Philadelphia put up an absolutely laughable performance, losing by the score of 27-17.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024