Example sentences for: scandal

How can you use “scandal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.

  • The social-purity movement that is the Clinton sex scandal has at least some of its roots in feminist thought, and the embarrassed mumbles of Gloria Steinem, et al.

  • The David Brock whose 1993 Troopergate article revived the Clinton sex scandal and portrayed Kendall's client and patron Hillary Clinton as a foul-mouthed bitch who orders state troopers to fetch her tampons?

  • This scandal did produce one of my favorite anecdotes of 1999.

  • Attorney General Janet Reno asked a court for 60 more days to decide whether to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate former Clinton aide Harold Ickes in the campaign finance scandal.


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