Scored
[skɔːd] or [skor]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Score
Typed by Jennifer
Examples
- Such were the shouts which followed the stroke; and at the conclusion of which All-Muggleton had scored two. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders and scored rocks plainly reveal a former cold period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It might, therefore, be natural to ask how far Edison or his companies have benefited pecuniarily by reason of the many belated victories they have scored in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The doctor has scored once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His face was gaunt and swarthy, scored with deep, savage lines. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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