SCAR in a Sentence

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For SCAR, below is one of 72 sentences:
The leg was of an unwholesome dead white, with the black hairs feeble and thin and flattened, and the scar a puckered line of crimson.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scar
 n.  mark of damage; mark left on the skin after injury
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  The red scar which boiling fat had left last month was ugly and glaring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Beneath his brow was one hollow socket from which a scar ran down his cheek, carving a diagonal line through his beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  A long raised scar ran across his brown chest and down into his heavily muscled abdomen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  The leg was of an unwholesome dead white, with the black hairs feeble and thin and flattened, and the scar a puckered line of crimson.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
6  A long scar ran across one cheek and drew the corner of his mouth up in a sinister curl.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
7  A great chunk of the shore had been bitten out by some spring freshet, and the scar was masked by elder bushes, growing down to the water in flowery terraces.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
8  "The sight of a wound or scar always agitates and sickens me," she said.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
9  George drew off his glove, and showed a newly-healed scar in his hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Fortunately it cannot leave a scar, as it is so tiny.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  It was without a scratch or scar of any kind.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  I knew, too, the red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  For so surely as we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees right to lift the burden that is hard upon us.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  His waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast of his burning eyes, and the red scar on the forehead showed on the pallid skin like a palpitating wound.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells; it is only now and again, when something recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scar.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Though the wound be healed yet a scar remains.
2  His early years in the refugee camp left a deep psychological scar.
3  Time cut scar is called growth.
4  Something is a knot when you reserve it,a scar when it's opened.
5  Blair memorably described the continent as a scar on the conscience of the world and insisted that the international community could heal it.
6  Clayton remains convinced this scar is due to an experimental operation to collect his DNA.
7  The tumor or lesion is not removed; over time it will be replaced with scar tissue.
8  Their faces and bodies were tattooed or scarred in hideous designs.
9  She referred to an unadorned rectangular stone, perhaps two meters wide and three long, strangely scarred in places.
10  His face was badly scarred by the fire.
11  She will probably be scarred for life.
12  He was covered in livid scars and patches of discolored skin.
13  She was actually quite pretty despite the scars I could see on her scalp and the pale, pale dying skin of her.
14  Her neck and arms were full of scars from a vindictive rage by her husband's relatives, who believed her guilty of his death.
15  Yet if you were carrying scars.