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How to use scatter in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Scatter means to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. Example: “The crowd scattered in terror.”

Examples of scatter by meaning

verbTo (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

  • The crowd scattered in terror.

verbTo distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

  • Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

verbTo deflect (radiation or particles).

  • From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chasca planetary description

verbTo frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

  • to scatter hopes or plans

verbTo be dispersed upon.

  • Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.

verbTo leave.

  • When the police showed up, I scattered.

nounA collection of dispersed objects.

  • The Los Angeles Basin evolved as a mobility surface principally through the combination of an initial system of electric railways connecting a scatter of agricultural settlement settlements.2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN...
  • A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.2007, David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, Princeton: Princeton University Press, page 498

More sentences with scatter

  • The accident left the contents of a flatbed trailer scattered across all three lanes.From the entry flatbed
  • The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.From the entry extent
  • Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.From the entry outwork
  • The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room.From the entry around
  • There were empty beer cans scattered about.From the entry beer can
  • The Prussian cavalry's death ride successfully scattered the French artillerymen, easing the pressure on the other Prussian formations.From the entry death ride
  • When the waiter dropped the platter, one smithereen struck him above the knee, and the four remaining smithereens scattered across the floor.From the entry smithereens
  • Scattered disc objects typically have highly eccentric orbits which can be inclined up to 40° relative to the orbital plane of the inner solar system.From the entry scattered disc object
  • His remains would have been scattered across thousands of acres of bush and ravine.2026 July 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Bryce Laspisa Vanished Near Castaic Lake After Spending 13 Hours Parked on a California Highway”, in Skip…. From the entry remains
  • Rocks scatter on the island, standing about 0.3 to 1.5 meters high.2021, Jinming Li, “Geographical overview of China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea”, in Liao Jing, Fu Rongbao, transl.…. From the entry South Rock
  • Purvi breaks her chapati into small pieces and scatters them around her plate.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 120. From the entry chapati
  • A surprising number of tiki websites and thousands of other tiki-oriented pages are scattered over the internet.2018, Geoff Alexander, America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland, McFarland, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry tiki culture
  • This year, Wanjin Christmas Festival scattered in Wanjin village, Chishan village and Wulaluzi tribe.2017 January 11, “Thousands of People Crowded to Wanjin to Celebrate the Christmas”, in Ping Tung County Police Bureau [屏東縣政府警察局]…. From the entry Chishan
  • When this gets romping and stomping, I don’t want everyone scattered from here to breakfast.”2017, Mary Emerick, “Burning the Prairies”, in Fire in the Heart: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire, New York, N.Y.: Arcade…. From the entry whatever melts your butter
  • These are often seen scattered in a background of cells with high-grade undifferentiated pleomorphic or myxofibrosarcomatous pattern.2015, Michael Ola Idowu, Molecular Oncology Testing for Solid Tumors: A Pragmatic Approach. From the entry myxofibrosarcomatous
  • Scattered 70S ribosomes and a plastoglobulus can be seen between the thylakoid stacks in C1.2015 July 2, Schmidt M, Horn S, Ehlers K, Wilhelm C, Schnetter R, “Guanchochroma wildpretii gen. et spec. nov. (Ochrophyta) Provides New…. From the entry plastoglobulus
  • But the middle of the sea was scattered with thousands of small tropical islands and atolls.2015 August 4, S. John Dickinson, The Banda Sea Pirates, Booktango, →ISBN. From the entry Banda Sea
  • Small dig below hairline on neck, some scattered contact marks but overall a lovely milk chocolatey hue.2015, Stack’s Bowers Galleries, The November 2015 Baltimore Auction: World Coins, Ancient Coins & World Paper Money, →OCLC, page 191…. From the entry milk chocolatey
  • A wide briarroot wooden desk, papers scattered here and there, some projects to consider.2013 June 4, Alessio Pennasilico, Lele Rozza, The Hackers' Destiny - Attack to the System, →ISBN. From the entry briarroot
  • Our case studies reveal that the rationality of climate change adaptation relies on multiple and scattered responsibilisations.2012, Monica Tennberg, Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland, →ISBN. From the entry responsibilisation
  • People might already be too scattered and distracted by the rumor storm.2012, David Brin, Existence, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry smart mob
  • Several groups of dead sand lizardfolk were scattered across their path.2011, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: The Book of Loss, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry lizardfolk
  • All round terrors befright him, and they scatter at his feet.2011, The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. From the entry befright
  • He was a scattered man, always pulling a geographical escape, always adopting a new name.2011, Katherine Govier, The Ghost Brush, page 392. From the entry piss up a wall
  • You auscultate her lung sounds and hear scattered wheezing in all lung fields.2010, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transport of the Sick and Injured, 10th Edition, page 494. From the entry lung fields
  • Interrupted Clubmoss is generally common, and Issler's clubmoss Diphasiastrum complanatum scattered.2010, Derek Ratcliffe, Lapland: A Natural History, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry interrupted clubmoss
  • The vaporized armor material scatters a DEW beam, rendering it ineffectual.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Weapons: Ablative Armor Codex entry. From the entry ablative
  • Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42. From the entry remember
  • In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN…. From the entry freeburn
  • Scattered beyond the Kuiper Belt is a disk of objects such as Eris and Sedna.2007, C. Murray, David Brodie, Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System, page 32. From the entry Sedna
  • Rounds of olive-oily focaccia are scattered with coarse salt and rosemary, scallions, or tomato sauce.2007, Patricia Unterman, Patricia Unterman’s San Francisco Food Lover’s Pocket Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry olive-oily
  • A laser is shone on the bubble, which scatters the light.2004, David D. Moon, Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball, page 109. From the entry on the bubble

Meaning of scatter

  1. verb To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
  2. verb To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
  3. verb To deflect (radiation or particles).

Full definition of scatter

Questions about scatter in a sentence

How do you use scatter in a sentence?
Scatter is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The crowd scattered in terror.”
What is a short sentence with scatter?
“Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.”
What does scatter mean?
Scatter means to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

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