SCUM in a Sentence

Learn SCUM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SCUM, such as:

1. There was green scum over the pond.
2. When scum is thick and compact, remove with a slotted spoon.
3. So far from having high connections I have no connections at all, and I come of the scum of the earth.
4. But he did not relish the hash for the mention of Clongowes had coated his palate with a scum of disgust.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scum
 n.  impure matter that forms on or rises to the surface of a liquid or body of water; worthless people
Classic Sentence:
1  They ate their sandwiches by a prairie slew: long grass reaching up out of clear water, mossy bogs, red-winged black-birds, the scum a splash of gold-green.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  So far from having high connections I have no connections at all, and I come of the scum of the earth.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  But he did not relish the hash for the mention of Clongowes had coated his palate with a scum of disgust.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  When scum is thick and compact, remove with a slotted spoon.
2  There was green scum over the pond.