Example sentences for: scoffs

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

  • But on PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer , Mark Shields scoffs at this defense.

  • Stoppard still scoffs at the idea that theater can be an agent of political awakening or social change: "If I wanted to change the world," he once told an interviewer, "the last thing I would do is write a play."

  • An article scoffs at "stress": It's a bogus disease that white-collar workers use as an excuse to skip work.

  • " 'Contain Saddam' is not a ringing bumper sticker," scoffs Steve Roberts (CNN's Late Edition ).

  • In England, left-wing British playwright Harold Pinter has pronounced the bombing "misjudged, miscalculated, disastrous," and conservative historian Niall Ferguson scoffs at the campaign's inadequacy in a Financial Times op-ed ("Bleeding Hearts and Bloody Messes").


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