Example sentences for: scars

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

  • Nerds may or may not carry their adolescent obsession into adulthood, but the scars of their obsession remain palpable.

  • Scars are not all that's exposed: Flipping through The Sixties you'll catch glimpses of Warhol superstar Viva's pregnant belly and fashion model Veruschka's breasts, as well as (among others) dancer Rudolf Nureyev's penis (impressive, flaccid) and satirist Paul Krassner's (less so, half-erect).

  • "With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs," he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm. "

  • I find it absurd that he could ever have settled into life with his new family (especially a certifiably crazy mother) with no scars, growing into a happy, snub-nosed, uncomplicated adolescent instead of, say, the delusional momma's-boy assassin of Six Ways to Sunday --or, for that matter, a vaguely unstable wannabe movie critic.

  • And Avedon's book exposes a number of scars, both physical and spiritual: the disfigured face of a napalmed Vietnamese woman, the sores on a leper's fingerless hand, the bent, swollen nose of a tired, defeated-looking Abbie Hoffman.


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