Use scoff in a sentence
Sentences ending with scoff
- The man who was absent and didn't see him to anything, will scoff. [5]
- I rather seem to scoff. [11]
- I dare not tell my father all I think, and Juste is so much a creature of moods that I am never sure whether he will be sensible and kind, or scoff. [11]
Sentences containing scoff two or more times
- Yet many people scoff at them for this loyalty to duty, and many will scoff at Mina Bahadur Rana and call him a crank. [5]
More example sentences with the word scoff in them
- Twenty of these years he was the scoff of the world, and his poetry a by-word of scorn. [6]
- No, he scoffed; there wasn't anything he wouldn't scoff at. [5]
- It was natural that the news of such a feat as we were accomplishing should have leaked out, that the "yard" should have been visited from time to time by interested friends, some of whom came to admire, some to scoff, and all to speculate. [9]
- It was then that men began to scoff at him behind his back, though some spoke with sufficient backwoods bluntness to his face. [9]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- To me, this sufficiently accounted for the disaster; as it did, of course, to Mumford, who added-- 'But there are many ignorant people who would scoff at such a matter, and call it superstition. [5]
- This struggle for riches and splendor corrupts the hearts of the people, foreign luxury has given a deadly blow to the simple manners of our citizens, and many an Egyptian has been taught by the Greeks to scoff at the gods of his fathers. [10]
- Tom's chin dropped on his breast, and 'stead of being mad, as I reckoned he'd be, to hear me scoff at his tale that way, he seemed to be only sad; and he says: "Some people can see, and some can't--just as that man said. [5]
- We had gone, not to scoff, but very probably to smile, and I will not say we did not. [6]
- Imperialistic cynics were not lacking to scoff at our protestation that we were fighting Spain in order to liberate Cuba; and yet this, for the American people at large, was undoubtedly the inspiration of the war. [9]
- And then we loftily scoff at a Prince for enjoying his larger ones; forgetting that if we only had his chance--ah! [5]
- How any man, in his right mind or out of it, could sit down and coldly try to persuade anybody to believe it, or listen patiently to it, or, indeed, do anything but scoff at it and deride it, is astonishing. [5]
- I said to him then, "You rail at the world and scoff at men and many decencies, and yet you do these things! [11]
- How many a felony has been committed here, merely to scoff at him and his creatures, and to keep them on the alert! [10]
- You've heard these cattle here scoff at them and call them lies and humbugs,--but they're not lies and humbugs, they're a reality and they're going to be a more wonderful thing some day than they are now. [5]
- I may scoff at other people's ideals as much as I want to. [5]
- They may scoff at it, the wise ones, but it will come. [9]
- Besides, there is a very curious sense of satisfaction in getting a fair chance to sneer at ourselves and scoff at our own pretensions. [6]
- It was at a little town on the outskirts of the city where those who had come to scoff and jeer remained to listen. [9]
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