How to Use mar in a Sentence

mar

verb

• A large scar marred his face.
• Her acting mars an otherwise great movie.
• The fight is marred by a long 10-count in the seventh round.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The trial of Pierre Laval would be marred by shouts from the jury at the accused.
  — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
• What was a very exciting game was marred by the actions of a few.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Even the ancient 150-year-old Banyan tree, a guardian of my youth, was marred by the inferno.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The group has also been marred by quality concerns both in and out of the car.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 1 Mar. 2024
• Holes marred the front door, while others littered the white stucco around the front windows.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• That trip was widely seen as a PR disaster, marred by protests along the way.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• True, that is a big ass piece of salad but even that doesn't mar your legendary beauty.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• Her death has marred what should have been some of the most enjoyable times for us as a family.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• But he was forced to miss over a month of the 2022 season with an injury at the same time the Packers were marred in one of their worst stretches in years.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
• His time with the team was marred by injuries and inconsistent play.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The delivery of the fleet also has been marred by other challenges.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Do the Buckeyes play with discipline in the back end and avoid the kinds of explosive touchdowns that marred the end of their 2022 season?
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• Pavement marred by shelling became the base of modern-day mosaics.
  — Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• The double door is marred with black scar marks from the flames that literally melted the lock, Dumeidi said.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Yet these moments of rage, panic or fear can’t mar the journey to finding your next role, experts have warned.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2023
• Rookie Jack Jones shined in moments, though a knee injury and a suspension marred the end of his season.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• The game was marred by a melee between the two teams in the Michigan Stadium tunnel afterward.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2023
• The final tour stop in her hometown, Walla Walla, Wash., and a reckoning with a past marred by abuse.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• Harris is a pastor who ran for Congress in 2018, when his campaign was marred by election fraud.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the update has been marred by delays and technical glitches.
  — Collin Binkley, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• His early years at Netflix were marked (some would say marred) by a bold promise to release one new movie every week.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• The first day of his visit was marred by a Russian missile attack on a market in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
• The exception was fiscal 2009, which was marred by a harsh recession.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The election was also marred by more graphic acts of defiance.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Semmelhack reasons that looping the laces over the facing — that’s the two flaps that come together over the tongue — could push the laces into the soft leather, marring it.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• Every major win can be a step in the right direction and every ugly loss can mar a team's hopes for inclusion in the field of 68.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2022
• With a lot of our favorite ‘90s titles teasing sequels and revivals, fans feared that this edition would mar our beloved O.G.
  — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024