Example sentences for: scrapped

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

  • The New York Times pointedly reminds its readers that NATO's last threats of air strikes were scrapped for last-minute negotiations, which merely won admittance of an unarmed monitoring team (a far cry from military withdrawal).

  • Gerstner scrapped IBM's dress code, bought Lotus Notes and popularized it, and is planning big things for Java.

  • In May, after receiving negative coverage from the local press, the university scrapped its search without making a hire, announcing that none of the finalists met "current institutional needs."

  • William Hill has offered odds of 10-to-1 that Bill and Hillary Clinton would announce divorce proceedings during 1999, 20-to-1 that the controversial "Millennium Dome" would be scrapped, 100-to-1 that Prince Charles would marry his sons' former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, and 1 million-to-1 that the world would end in August.

  • Davis all but scrapped the traditional boundary between foreground (improvising soloists) and background (rhythm section).


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