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.

  • 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").

  • The accompanying editorial scoffs at the First Amendment claim that campaign spending is speech ("ridiculous") and suggests that the United States ban political television ads.

  • Katzenbach, who was U.S. attorney general under Johnson, scoffs at the notion that Legal Services is just another government handout.

  • … The cover book review scoffs at the misplaced sympathy for men in Susan Faludi's Stiffed . Faludi's poorly written tome ignores "the resurgence of male bravado," which is evident in the candidacy of Donald Trump and the popularity of Howard Stern.


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