Example sentences for: scuttle

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

  • 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!)

  • 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!

  • The Republicans "know they risk nuclear proliferation if they scuttle it" but will do so because they "want to deny President Bill Clinton his top foreign policy goal," the paper said.

  • 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.


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