How to Use scandalize in a Sentence

scandalize

verb
  • She was scandalized by her son's behavior.
  • The image scandalized city boosters at the time and the mural was white washed.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In the last century the whole world was scandalized about what the Nazis did to purify the race.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race.
    Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
  • What doesn’t scandalize us is as scandalous as what does.
    Gil Troy, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Long before there were jockstraps, codpieces scandalized the world in both art and life.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This is not the first time the nation has been scandalized by police behavior of this nature.
    Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine.
    Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Their kissing and intimate comments scandalized the other teams and the daffy host (Schumer).
    Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2018
  • From that moment, his short, chaotic reign would scandalize Rome.
    National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Trump’s willingness to scandalize the garden party was proof of his willingness to take on this task.
    vanityfair.com, 6 July 2017
  • Against all propriety and etiquette, Jeanne moves to Versailles, where her arrival scandalizes the court.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Rather than cheer Green’s boldness, much of the British establishment was scandalized.
    Suzi Ring, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The Gospels are full of Jesus treating women in a way that would have scandalized his contemporaries.
    John Blake, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Such a procedure should not scandalize anyone in our time.
    Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Emojis and insults and near-threats keep coming until poor, scandalized Don has to close his laptop and scoot away, as if on the run from a feral creature poised to bite.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • It’s day 11 on Lairo tribe, and Elaine is absolutely scandalized.
    Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But, Pose isn’t scandalized by the idea a man like Stan would fall head-over-loafers for a fascinating, caring, bombshell of a woman like Angel.
    refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • The group is 100 percent scandalized, but does seem to enjoy seeing Taka and his undercarriage at work.
    Mariah Smith, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Such talk likely would have scandalized Mugabe, who was openly disdainful of the drug.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2018
  • Ms. Phillips, 62, is a descendant of the match, which so scandalized the royal family that the couple never returned to Russia.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Think back to the then-scandalizing ads for Thinx period-proof underwear.
    Ciara Phelan, Allure, 22 Apr. 2019
  • While living in Berlin, in order to scandalize Karl and his bourgeois friends, Walser enrolled in a butlers training school and briefly worked for a prominent German baron.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Since the beginning of popular music, rock stars have often invoked Satan as a surefire way to scandalize parents and freak out the squares.
    Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But remember when people were scandalized over teenage Spears moaning about leaving behind her name and age?
    Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The league’s steadfast resistance to sports gambling stems from its fear that bettors might scandalize the NFL by bribing players or coaches to fix game scores to their benefit.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 11 June 2017
  • Miss Martha is initially scandalized by the Yankee’s presence.
    Justin Chang, star-telegram, 28 June 2017
  • But even my frugal mother might have been scandalized by this particular chair.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Horrified by the physical scenes between him and Ellen Tree’s Desdemona, the theater’s scandalized owners closed the show two days later.
    Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017
  • One town where Schiele took up residence was so scandalized by the artist’s reported practice of enlisting teenagers to model for him that its citizens drove him out.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 July 2019

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