SCALD in a Sentence

Learn SCALD from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For SCALD, below is one of 16 sentences:
Kindly remember, Madam, that I've seen you wake up squalling like a scalded cat simply because you dreamed of running in a fog.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCALD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scald
 v.  burn with hot liquid or steam; pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; expose to a boiling or violent heat
Classic Sentence:
1  These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
2  Eustacia said, while scalding tears trickled from her eyes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
3  And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
4  We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  The scalding water burst forth from his eyes and, burning with shame and agony and fear, he drew back his shaking arm in terror and burst out into a whine of pain.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and towards evening set them before the fire, that they might roast.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CLEVER GRETEL
7  But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
8  Kindly remember, Madam, that I've seen you wake up squalling like a scalded cat simply because you dreamed of running in a fog.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  But though the tears scalded his eyes and his limbs quivered with pain and fright he held back the hot tears and the cry that scalded his throat.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  The hot water might scald her when the boiler exploded.
2  A scalded dog thinks cold water hot.
3  The scalded cat fears cold water.
4  The scalded dog fears cold water.
5  He scalded his tongue with hot coffee.
6  I dropped a pan of boiling water and scalded my leg.
7  The scalded tears fell down on her face when she heard the news.