SCANDAL in a Sentence

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169 example sentences for SCANDAL, such as:
1. The scandal would come out just the same.
2. The administration was tainted with scandal.
3. Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
4. Then I hinted at the scandal and its unpleasant course.
5. Tis a scandal to the nation to do neither one nor t'other.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SCANDAL
scandal
 n.  a disgraceful event
 n.  disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
2  That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
3  Then I took on with another girl, a teacher, who had made a scandal by carrying on with a married man and driving him nearly out of his mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  The scandal of the keeper continues and gets bigger like a snowball.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
5  She is preoccupied with the Mellors scandal, and if I will let her begin, she takes me down to the depths.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  The scandal of the truant wife, instead of dying down, has reverberated to greater and greater dimensions.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  Then I hinted at the scandal and its unpleasant course.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  --When I pressed him about his manner of life at the cottage, he said: Surely you might ma'e a scandal out o me an my bitch Flossie.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  I said I never listened to scandal, and was surprised to hear this bit from Sir Clifford himself.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  What Sir Malcolm could not bear was the scandal of his daughter's having an intrigue with a game-keeper.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  He did not mind the intrigue: he minded the scandal.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  And she also simply could not stand the thought of a public scandal about her sister and a game-keeper.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  The scandal would come out just the same.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  Then there is a scandal of some sort, and that's what's the matter with Thomasin.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
15  Tis a scandal to the nation to do neither one nor t'other.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
2  The administration was tainted with scandal.
3  The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up.
4  In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
5  The affair was the most sensational political sex scandal of the century.
6  A financial scandal would shake the Institute's standing in the international academic community.
7  Some magazines contain nothing but scandal and gossip.
8  The scandal has shaken the Democratic Party to its foundations.
9  After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
10  He was obliged to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal.
11  His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.
12  This scandal could prove seriously damaging to the government.
13  It is getting harder for the president to dissociate himself from the scandal.
14  This latest scandal will not have done their public image any good.
15  The scandal threatened to undermine the institution of the Presidency.