SCROLL in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for SCROLL, such as:

1. The firmament was as a scroll rolled away.
2. The ancient Egyptians stored information on scrolls.
3. Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea.
4. He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
5. The peasant took the scroll, which contained only a few lines in Hebrew.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCROLL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scroll
 n.  a roll of paper; a writing formed into a roll; schedule or list; mark added to signature, intended to represent a seal
Classic Sentence:
1  It is safe with me," said the Outlaw, "so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set down.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  The peasant took the scroll, which contained only a few lines in Hebrew.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The firmament was as a scroll rolled away.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  A scroll so wide might not be deemed too expensive for Providence to write a people's doom upon.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
7  Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
8  Then Penelope came down from her room looking like Venus or Diana, and they set her a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver and ivory near the fire in her accustomed place.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
9  His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  A rocker had a back like a lyre, a near-leather seat imitating tufted cloth, and arms like Scotch Presbyterian lions; with knobs, scrolls, shields, and spear-points on unexpected portions of the chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw; his vast, shadowed bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
Example Sentence:
1  Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
2  Religion called -- Angels beckoned -- God commanded -- life rolled together like a scroll -- death's gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second.
3  The ancient Egyptians stored information on scrolls.
4  Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea.
5  Shoppers are buying red lanterns, scrolls with poetic couplets, paper cuttings and plush snake toys to express their best wishes for the Lunar New Year and decorate their homes.