Example sentences for: scramble

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

  • If you're in the market, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle will teach you how to 1) kill with a bayonet (thrust deep under ribs, drag in slow, deep circle to scramble organs); 2) skin a man alive (slit skin at shoulder, peel slowly down right arm); and 3) eliminate a zoo full of carnivores (four snipers per tiger best).

  • The air defenders searched for United 93's primary radar return and tried to locate other fighters to scramble.

  • (For more on the commoditization scramble, click here.)

  • As we pointed out in chapter 1, the military planners assumed that since such aircraft would be coming from overseas; they would have time to identify the target and scramble interceptors.

  • The Times quotes the headline of an Italian newspaper story about the scramble: "The Pope: Heaven Can Wait, the Networks Cannot."


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