How to Use scarred in a Sentence
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The scarred blue whale returned to the same bay for 15 years afterward.
—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
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The dam was visibly scarred by fighting in the months before the breach.
—Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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The more scarred that hamstring becomes, the less supple.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
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Others were scarred and blinded in the most hideous manner.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
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In the dawn of 7 a.m., Sanford and others descended the scarred hillside and tried to process the image of the naked shore.
—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
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The encounter, the details of which are in Bell’s book, ended in minutes but scarred Bell deeply.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
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Some of the sweetest soul music is born from childhoods scarred with pain.
—Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
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The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
—Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
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Many homebuilders were scarred by the Great Recession, when a glut of homes on the market crashed prices.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
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Some in the crowd scarred monuments near the White House with graffiti.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
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Yet his own films were marked by a keen sense of ambient tragedy and often scarred by the horrors of war.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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But despite a decade of work and a $25 million loan, the Icarus-like dream remains a scarred hillside whose fate rests in court.
—New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
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The Wonderettes are reunited and a little scarred by life since high school.
—David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
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During a trip to Hawaii, Barker and Burnet found a scarred pit bull loose in a tourist area, begging for food.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
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But the wall in the bedroom is scarred with bullet holes, spackled over but still visible.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
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But while those officers have faced punishment in the courts, the city is still scarred by the aftermath of Floyd’s death.
—Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
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Hopefully, Francesca wasn’t too scarred from seeing a piece of Schrader’s thumb in a doggy bag the next day.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 May 2024
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Many young Greeks who grew up during that time feel scarred by the Syriza experience.
—Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 24 June 2023
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Then in 1981, this scarred slope that still wore the derelict remnants of its past was discovered by Don and Terry Robertson.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
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Meanwhile, the girl has been left scarred, the family told the state attorney’s office.
—Linda So, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
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Brief more modern-day scenes suggest all the kids are one way or another scarred by their childhood for life.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 3 July 2023
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On scarred Midwestern streets, the SL63's ride is gentle, despite the large wheels and teensy sidewalls.
—Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2022
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Here is a performer with a strong face: sleepy eyes, scarred upper lip, mouth that curls into a snarl, prominent forehead.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
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The futures lost and survivors scarred are no less significant.
—Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
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For years afterward, the scarred site was a makeshift memorial filled with wooden crosses.
—Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
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Addressing a crowd on a square in Okhtyrka, Zelenskyy promised that the battle-scarred city would be rebuilt.
—Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
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The Korean revenge drama follows a young woman, Dong-Eun, who was bullied and badly scarred in high school by a group of friends.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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When a wildfire swept through in July, the dense vegetation stoked flames that destroyed Vasquez’s home and transformed the land into a scarred moonscape.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
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Like many of Poland’s great artists of his era, Skolimowski’s life, and that of his family, was deeply scarred by the cataclysms of 20th-century history.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
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Seoul’s relations with Japan have long been scarred by Japan’s harsh colonial occupation of Korea.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2024
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