SCATTERED in a Sentence

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There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around, but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCATTERED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scattered
 a.  lacking orderly continuity
 a.  occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
Classic Sentence: (188 in 13 pages)
1  Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
5  Yes, there it lay, the fruit of all their struggles, levelled to its foundations, the stones they had broken and carried so laboriously scattered all around.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
6  "Touch wood; touch earth; Antaeus," he muttered, bringing the scattered bits together.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  He did add it in effect, perhaps, as he softly moved her scattered hair from her forehead with his hand.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
9  Some train had newly arrived in Coketown, which had put a number of vehicles in motion, and scattered a considerable bustle about the town.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
10  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  The vanquished, of whom very few remained, scattered and escaped into the neighbouring wood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  But one word from Isaac at length recalled her scattered feelings.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Oliver's clothes had been torn in the beating he had received; his face was bruised and scratched; and his hair scattered over his forehead.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open space; scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other indications of a cattle-market.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  By degrees, other shops began to be unclosed, and a few scattered people were met with.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Large vases of flowers were liberally scattered about the room.
2  Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a wide area.
3  The farmer scattered the corn in the yard for the hens.
4  The birds scattered at the sound of the gun.
5  The police scattered the disorderly crowd.
6  When the police arrived, the crowd scattered in all directions.
7  There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around, but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.
8  Those who used to say never separated, have scattered in the horizon.
9  Her ashes were scattered at sea.
10  Because the edges of the tube curve away from the film, the x-rays get scattered about, causing distortion.
11  So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
12  One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
13  All the rescuers found in the mountains of Venezuela was the scattered wreckage of the plane and the charred corpse of its occupant.
14  Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there.
15  I think a benefit is that a blast is roughly going to tend towards spherical, meaning that pieces will be scattered into space, back towards the atmosphere.