How to Use scarred in a Sentence

scarred

adjective

• The scarred blue whale returned to the same bay for 15 years afterward.
  — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• The dam was visibly scarred by fighting in the months before the breach.
  — Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• The more scarred that hamstring becomes, the less supple.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Others were scarred and blinded in the most hideous manner.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the dawn of 7 a.m., Sanford and others descended the scarred hillside and tried to process the image of the naked shore.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The encounter, the details of which are in Bell’s book, ended in minutes but scarred Bell deeply.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
• Some of the sweetest soul music is born from childhoods scarred with pain.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
  — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Many homebuilders were scarred by the Great Recession, when a glut of homes on the market crashed prices.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• Some in the crowd scarred monuments near the White House with graffiti.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• Yet his own films were marked by a keen sense of ambient tragedy and often scarred by the horrors of war.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• But despite a decade of work and a $25 million loan, the Icarus-like dream remains a scarred hillside whose fate rests in court.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• The Wonderettes are reunited and a little scarred by life since high school.
  — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
• During a trip to Hawaii, Barker and Burnet found a scarred pit bull loose in a tourist area, begging for food.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• But the wall in the bedroom is scarred with bullet holes, spackled over but still visible.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• But while those officers have faced punishment in the courts, the city is still scarred by the aftermath of Floyd’s death.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• Hopefully, Francesca wasn’t too scarred from seeing a piece of Schrader’s thumb in a doggy bag the next day.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 May 2024
• Many young Greeks who grew up during that time feel scarred by the Syriza experience.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• Then in 1981, this scarred slope that still wore the derelict remnants of its past was discovered by Don and Terry Robertson.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
• Residents say Jenin has been left transformed and scarred.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, the girl has been left scarred, the family told the state attorney’s office.
  — Linda So, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• Then, one evening, at a hip eatery, the restaurant’s owner drops by the table, and Lily notices a familiar scarred hand.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
• Brief more modern-day scenes suggest all the kids are one way or another scarred by their childhood for life.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 3 July 2023
• On scarred Midwestern streets, the SL63's ride is gentle, despite the large wheels and teensy sidewalls.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2022
• The outcome of that situation left her scarred and unable to have children.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 21 July 2024
• Everyone in these pages is thrown off-balance, all of them just scarred little people, fumbling in the dark.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
• Here is a performer with a strong face: sleepy eyes, scarred upper lip, mouth that curls into a snarl, prominent forehead.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The futures lost and survivors scarred are no less significant.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
• For years afterward, the scarred site was a makeshift memorial filled with wooden crosses.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Many senior Democratic leaders are still scarred by the public polling misses in the last two presidential contests.
  — Alex Thompson, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024