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
• Saddened, for sure, and no doubt even scandalized — but not shocked.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• Or are those who end up scandalized at fault for taking the obvious bait in the first place?
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
• 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
• At four years old, Bowen scandalized them by doing a striptease to Céline Dion in the living room.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The artist is always one step ahead—and has a unique power to scandalize each generation anew.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2023
• 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
• As with a provocative runway show, some people were scandalized.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The story scandalized the community; Gracie went to jail.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Back home after leaving school, Bamber had grown cannabis behind the cattle shed and scandalized the family by carrying on an affair with a married mother of three.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024