Example sentences for: scorched-earth

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

  • This was a scorched-earth policy).

  • For the past two decades or so, All My Children's Susan Lucci has waged a scorched-earth campaign against small-town feminine niceness.

  • Both papers point out that Bradley had previously been eschewing scorched-earth politics.

  • A sense of what should be engaging the country more than all of this comes with a reading of today's WP editorial about the current situation in Serbia . Various diplomats are quoted claiming that Serbian troops under the command of Slobodan Milosevic have shot many ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and through a scorched-earth policy are fixing to let many more--hundreds of thousands--starve to death.

  • All this in contrast to the stark scene evident everywhere in East Timor, what the LAT calls "the most vicious and thorough scorched-earth exercise that Southeast Asia has seen since World War II."


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