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How to use scat in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Scat means a tax; tribute. Example: “Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.”

Examples of scat by meaning

nounAnimal excrement; droppings, dung.

  • Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist [print version: For hungry polar bears, a climate change twist...

nounCoprophilia, scatophilia.

  • Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, page 183
  • In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 72

nounA brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

  • "I am never away." The tail end of a scat of rain beat on their faces.2019 December 9 [????], E. Phillips Oppenheim, Nobody's Man: A Thrilling Tale of Espionage and Betrayal, Good Press

verbTo leave quickly.

  • Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
  • We have to scat!2013, Eldot, The Champions, page 245
  • Her mother looked at me in fright and quickly scatted with her daughter back down the hall.2013, Cecilia Spiros, The Montoya Saga: Premonitions, page 57

interjectionAn imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

  • Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
  • Go on, scat!' she called, trying to shoo it away.2014, Marita Conlon-McKenna, The Hat Shop On The Corner, page 24

More sentences with scat

  • Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.2018, Brent Butt, “Sasquatch Your Language”, in Corner Gas Animated. From the entry poo
  • I thought scat was a form of song, that improvised skibidy bop soo bob stuff.1996 November 22, Jennifer D. Cohoon, “Funniest store names???”, in rec.humor (Usenet). From the entry skibidy
  • When Leo is happy, he bursts out in riffs of scat singing, making up little melodies as he goes.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 2, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York…. From the entry keening
  • You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.1999 September 14, “I Can't Wait” (track 2), in Nigga Please, performed by Ol' Dirty Bastard. From the entry tat
  • But that same bully was quicker than scat to rat her out when she retaliated and gave him a severe pounding when she was bigger.2020, Christianne Van Keuren, Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Battle for Elvenfeld, page 24. From the entry quicker than scat
  • Such fossil specimens passed into or through the digestive tracts of carnivores before being left as scat that was later reworked into sedimentary rocks.1974, J. S. Mellett, Scatological origin of microvertebrate fossil accumulations. From the entry coprocoenosis
  • A “joy car” waited by the low wooden platform with already one or two apprehensive passengers biting their nails in the front scats.1939, Loch,t.a., chapter V, in I Left England, page 50. From the entry joy car

Meaning of scat

  1. noun A tax; tribute.
  2. noun A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  3. noun Animal excrement; droppings, dung.

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Questions about scat in a sentence

How do you use scat in a sentence?
Scat is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.”
What is a short sentence with scat?
“We have to scat!”
What does scat mean?
Scat means a tax; tribute.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scat (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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