Example sentences for: scuttle

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

  • Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.

  • Bugs are errors, somewhat analogous to typos or factual errors in newspaper articles, but the difference is that a typo is almost never enough to spoil an entire edition of a newspaper, whereas a tiny error in a software program can scuttle it.

  • Monuments to money!Money and immortality!Money and immortality and blistering heat!Twenty-nine floors below diminished figures scuttle!Descending twenty-nine floors rapid as a fibrillating heart you can join them!You are choking in bus exhaust the blackest in the U.S.A.!You are invisible amid the pedestrians of color!On Commerce!

  • And on ABC's This Week , George Will says even a $700 billion cut is too small, while Bill Kristol says that the GOP really ought to scuttle tax cuts, pay off the national debt, and hike military spending.

  • America's slow vanishing, whose pacewas doubled, not restrained, by celluloid.The summer nights on Fire Island, proppedon hard liquor like driftwood in a scuttle;the winter nights in violin-backed chairs(the slender tenors with their pompadours!)


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