Example sentences for: scoff

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

  • Lawyers scoff at the notion that doubt can be quantified so precisely.

  • Assigned after some weeks to a few hours per week in the makeshift dental clinic in the prison revier or hospital, I took to busying myself during the great gaps of empty time by searching out and putting on paper British army-language specials, like mucker `partner,' scoff `overeat,' fluff `girl,' skilly `meal,' griff `rumor,' duff `dessert.

  • Editorialists still doubt that the bunker's destruction accounts for the putative "Gulf War Syndrome," but scoff that the government has lost all credibility on the issue.

  • Why, he's not even a governor anymore, they scoff.

  • When they're not fretting that Wolf has too many pernicious ideas, the critics scoff that she has none.


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