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How to use scald in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb, noun, adjective

Scald means to burn with hot liquid. Example: “Scald the milk until little bubbles form.”

Examples of scald by meaning

verbTo burn with hot liquid.

  • to scald the hand
  • The fireman was scalded by steam, but he did not fare so badly as the enemy pilot, whose dead body was found on a bank about 100 yd. away from the train.1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119

verbTo heat almost to boiling.

  • Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

nounA paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and...

  • The scald should not be so stiff as for Virgin, and should taste sweet when newly made.1911, William Jago, William C. Jago, The Technology of Bread-making: Including the Chemistry and Analytical and Practical Testing of Wheat...

More sentences with scald

  • Shoot, Sniffer jerked away and took off like a scalded dog.2010, R. Harper Mason, Lyin' Like a Dog. From the entry like a scalded dog
  • Then hurrying to lift a pot of pirohy from the stove, she scalded her arm.1978–1979, V. S. Koban, “The Sorrows of Marienka”, in Slovakia, volume XXVIII, numbers 51–52, West Paterson, N.J.: The Slovak League of…. From the entry pirohy
  • More often, he would buck like a scalded dog.2012, Jean Larremore, Self-Portrait of a Texas Cowboy: Ass Over Teakettle, page 54. From the entry like a scalded dog
  • Very softly I boiled water, made a sandwich from the remains of the luncheon roast chicken, scalded the Twining creature.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. From the entry bever
  • Scald the milk in a double boiler with the cinnamon.1948 September, Lois Cook, “Recipes from South Africa”, in Blanche Stover, editor, Practical Home Economics, Incorporating Better Food…. From the entry maizeflour
  • Your Muscat Grapes are both shanked and scalded ; the latter can be easily remedied, but the former is more difficult.1904, William Robinson, The Garden. From the entry shanked
  • Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN. From the entry incantator
  • Martin remembered being in the A and E there, his mother had scalded her hand while on a rare visit to him.2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Doubleday, page 49 (US paperback). From the entry A and E

Meaning of scald

  1. verb To burn with hot liquid.
  2. verb To heat almost to boiling.
  3. noun A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Full definition of scald

Questions about scald in a sentence

How do you use scald in a sentence?
Scald is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “Scald the milk until little bubbles form.”
What is a short sentence with scald?
“to scald the hand”
What does scald mean?
Scald means to burn with hot liquid.

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