Example sentences for: scotsman

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

  • Crossing the North Atlantic in late 1943, one of the nine of us packed in a cabin made for two read aloud a joke in a letter from home: A Scotsman (jokes were openly ethnic then) on discovering his near-drowned son being resuscitated yells at the exhausted rescuer, Well and good, mon, but where in 'ell is his hat?

  • John Law, a Scotsman, financier, and high-rolling gambler, on the run from England after a fatal duel, saw the possibility of promoting this distant marshland as a paradise.

  • The Scotsman reports that Edinburgh University is withholding exam results from 90 computer science students while the administration determines whether or not they used the Internet to cheat.

  • (Ian Willmut, the Scotsman who cloned Dolly, would seem to be a guy whose work has really come alive.)

  • A zealous Scotsman would have wished Mr. Johnson to be without one of his five senses upon this occasion.


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