SCENE in a Sentence

Learn SCENE 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 SCENE, below is one of 351 sentences:
Melanie bit her lip and tears came to her eyes, and Mammy standing in the hall, a witness to the scene, scowled and breathed hard.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCENE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scene
 n.  structure on which something is shown; part of theater where the acting is done; place, time, or circumstance in which anything occurs
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The scene was just as he had dreamed of it that morning.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  When he re-entered the kitchen the lamp lit up the same scene of shining comfort as on the previous evening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena's steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  The sight of Mattie going about her work as he had seen her on so many mornings made it seem impossible that she should ever cease to be a part of the scene.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Lying in the bed with the moonlight streaming dimly over her, she pictured the whole scene in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Of course, the Tarleton twins had nice manners and they wouldn't make a scene at a barbecue, even though tremendously provoked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Just the same, all the ladies felt pleasantly excited, for it was so seldom that they actually saw a scene or a quarrel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  "A change of scene will be the best thing in the world for her," said the doctor, only too anxious to be rid of an unsatisfactory patient.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Over the railroads that led down from Virginia to Atlanta and then northward to Tennessee, General Longstreet's corps had been rushed to the scene of the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  I began with your inelegant scene at Twelve Oaks and, since then, I've picked up many things by keeping my eyes open.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Fatigue gave an unreal, nightmarish cast to the whole scene.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Melanie bit her lip and tears came to her eyes, and Mammy standing in the hall, a witness to the scene, scowled and breathed hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  Melanie's eyes took in the scene below in its entirety, the sprawling blue-clad body in the red pool, the sewing box beside him, Scarlett, barefooted and gray-faced, clutching the long pistol.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
16  Freddie Mercury was a flamboyant star of the British hard rock scene.
17  The camera dollied in for the final scene.
18  Specks of paint found at the scene were found to match the accused's car.
19  The beauty of the scene made him catch his breath.
20  I could clearly imagine the scene in the office.
21  I can imagine the scene clearly in my mind.
22  Baker had to convince jurors that his client had been nowhere near the scene of the murder.
23  The lawyer contended her client had never been near the scene of the crime.
24  The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
25  The loveliness of the scene was beyond compare.
26  Anything to create a scene and attract attention will do.
27  I can witness that he wasn't at the scene of the crime.
28  The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
29  Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.
30  Words can hardly describe the beauty of the scene.