SCALP in a Sentence

Learn SCALP 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.

35 example sentences for SCALP, such as:

1. scalp was the only admissible trophy of victory.
2. He was trying to pick up some cash scalping tickets.
3. Massage the shampoo gently into your hair and scalp.
4. in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall.
5. He paused, feeling his scalp prickling under his hat.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCALP
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scalp
 n.  skin covering the top of the human head; top of head; skull
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  And I managed to get into the bushes and hide and I lay there and saw our house burn and I saw the Indians scalp my brothers and sisters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  scalp was the only admissible trophy of victory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  was deemed more important to obtain the scalp than to kill.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
6  Chingachgook laid his hand on the scalp, and considered it for a moment with deep attention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  He concluded by pointing to the scalp of the Oneida, and apparently urging the necessity of their departing speedily, and in a manner that should leave no trail.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
8  After all, it is likely the imps would have managed to master my scalp, so a day or two will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning of time.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
9  As to rush, I little relish such a measure; for a scalp or two must be thrown away in the attempt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
10  The little blistering voices of pain that had called out from his scalp were, he thought, definite in their expression of danger.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  He came down the aisle of the chapel, his legs shaking and the scalp of his head trembling as though it had been touched by ghostly fingers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  By and by they separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful warwhoops, and killed and scalped each other by thousands.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  Some were scalped; some received the keen and trembling axe; and others suffered by thrusts from the fatal knife.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
14  They were prouder and happier in their new acquirement than they would have been in the scalping and skinning of the Six Nations.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  The keen weapon cut the war plume from the scalping tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
Example Sentence:
1  Doctors planted tiny expandable balloons under each baby's scalp so they'll have enough skin tissue to cover their heads one they're separated.
2  She was actually quite pretty despite the scars I could see on her scalp and the pale, pale dying skin of her.
3  Worried about preserving his few wispy tufts of hair, Walter carefully massaged his scalp and applied hair restorer every night.
4  He paused, feeling his scalp prickling under his hat.
5  Massage the shampoo gently into your hair and scalp.
6  His hair was plastered down to his scalp by the rain.
7  He was trying to pick up some cash scalping tickets.
8  Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.