How To Use Scarred In A Sentence

But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
A tumour had manifested itself. Fine fabric had been scarred.
A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
the fire left her arm badly scarred
She has had three operations and been left heavily scarred. Times, Sunday Times

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In the scarred northern city of Mosul much of the battle damage is recent.
Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield.
His face was badly scarred by the fire.
The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
America, unscarred by war, became the world's grocery store.
The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
Among those who returned from the war physically intact, many had been psychologically scarred.
A large, scarred Cimmerian is nearby, and manages to rescue her, not without injury to either. Archive 2007-03-01
She shoulders a surprisingly long spear, perhaps to ward off the ardent king, although by that time she had been scarred by smallpox and he had mostly given up his advances.
A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky.
Just another morning in just another primary: just another crop of emotionally scarred children.
I am simply saying that it would be fitting and right for those responsible for the damages caused — I do not care whether those damages be in terms of silted streams, scarred landscapes, or in lost livestock — to take full responsibility for them. Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups
His square hands, scarred from the mines, move as he speaks. El Colibrí (The Hummingbird)
She was both physically and mentally scarred by the accident.
Now some of them want out, led by a pale-faced scarred guy with a telescoping spear and a really bad temper, who's trying to find his twin sister to reassemble a magical crown that will allow him to resummon the golden army and finish off humanity. Alex Remington: Hellboy 2 Stands Out in a Weak Summer for Movies
Gainful work will save a generation scarred by unemployment. Times, Sunday Times
The mules have the additional benefit of offering a green solution, leaving the landscape unscarred by gouging truck tyres or the ropeways that are used to transport construction material.
Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death. Law of Attraction
A scarred pine table stood in the middle of the floor, perfectly positioned for the ceremony that lay ahead. THE LAST TEMPTATION
From the dark skinned Grandfather who I never met, an alcoholic baker, from the Grandmother traumatised by “The Troubles”, from the Mother with skin scarred by burns, serving time in a hospital which rewarded her with diphtheria and isolation. Archive 2008-02-01
Crater - scarred Rhea floats in the distance, peeking out from behind Saturn's partly shadowed rings.
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
It left her permanently scarred and blind in one eye. The Sun
Her face was badly scarred and she struggled to move her injured legs and arms.
Genitalia were noted to be normal externally, but the hymen appeared to be somewhat distorted and scarred with a rather high free edge.
He needed to be tough to withstand the personal attacks from the press that scarred his tenure. Times, Sunday Times
It's more of a scarred old tomcat than a pussycat, but deserves a mention nonetheless.
She sat down next to him, slid her hand across the scarred Formica table, and grabbed his arm. DOLL'S EYES
Cricket chiefs are also hopeful that Ashes hysteria will also help dispel any lingering disenchantment among fans or sponsors caused by the match-fixing saga that scarred Pakistan's tour of England last summer. English cricket hopes for a sponsorship bonanza
The scarred man pulls at his hat, a floppy felt affair which, constructed anaesthetically, does little more than conceal his long and haggard face. Beneath an opal moon
Judging by their build and scarred bodies, they had definitely seen a few fights in an earlier life.
There were heart-wrenching tales from families whose innocent lives he had ruined and scarred forever.
Huge cranes hang over a scarred landscape that is protected by guards. Times, Sunday Times
Between these whitish scarred spots are noticeable on which small red lupous tubercles again appear. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
His short daily walk took him past a set of rundown, graffiti-covered shops and litter-scarred tracts of open land.
Oiled flesh, unscarred tummies, and it wasn't yet noon. Times, Sunday Times
He needed to be tough to withstand the personal attacks from the press that scarred his tenure. Times, Sunday Times
Takes me a moment to wrap my brain around the fact that itâ€ ™ s him, for real, not ten meters in front of my scarred, cindered, wrecked-out self. â€œHow â€˜bout a beer? â€ 365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
If you instinctively interpret that sentence as a reference to the battle-scarred topic of climate change, then it is a mark of how successfully those opposed to the scientific consensus on climate change have appropriated the term sceptic ". army of Freedom of Information requesters currently swarming around climate science databases? Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
She entered the familiar vestibule, with its scarred stone caryatids and crumbling pillars, and walked down the short flight of iron-railed steps to the main chamber of Father's rooms.
Im 16 and IM truley sorry people scarred you into living the way u do (terrorism???) and you pot haters collectviley saying stuff like 'dog eats kid beause of pot' is the reason so many husbands, brothers, childern and sisters will sleep in cell right next to the toilet tonight. Red Alerts
She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black. THE WHITE DOVE
As you can see, I wasn't scarred by the experience at all.
After all, who needed these scarred old buffers in the new dot.com era that would run forever?
Much of it is bare wood, stained and scarred. The Times Literary Supplement
She has had three operations and been left heavily scarred. Times, Sunday Times
Aaron Eckhart is the battle-scarred veteran who is ready to clock out after 20 years. Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Battle: Los Angeles" Old Fashioned War Movie...With Aliens
But that didn't stop a chorus of critical hosannas, particularly for Fincher's work, and that of lead actress Rooney Mara, who was revelatory as emotionally scarred hacker Lisbeth Salander. Oscars 2012: the best picture nominations we'd like to see
Built on a restricted site, scarred by fire and unstable geologic conditions, this modern two-storey house features a minimalist interior on a backdrop of white and large windows for natural light. Shell-Wheeler House : A Sustainable Private Residence by Johnston Architects
I stopped by the trunk of a gumbo-limbo and pointed to the smooth bark, which was scarred with scratches. BLOWN AWAY!
It was unscarred and perfectly ordinary, the face of a mild-mannered sixty-something-year-old man. The Omega Theory
When he was eight years old, his heart tissue was permanently scarred by a serious bout with rheumatic fever.
The mules have the additional benefit of offering a green solution, leaving the landscape unscarred by gouging truck tyres or the ropeways that are used to transport construction material.
Landscapes are peaceful and unscarred, animals roam free, children never grow up and work is virtually non-existent.
Laurence has a cool question for you: What movie scenes have horribly warped and scarred your psyche?
When I was a teenager I read a book in which the word panties was used....how it was used scarred me for life and I can't read that word without flinching. Archive 2009-12-01
Isolde had been healer to more of them than she could count, and she knew how very, very rarely did such men pick up the shattered pieces of themselves and walk on with their spirits not unscarred exactly, but at least whole. Dark Moon of Avalon
It may be these catastrophic ruptures in unscarred uteri that cause the misguided fear of cesarean scars rupturing.
When he arrived she bathed his battle-scarred features with hamamelis, which is just the same as Pond's Extract, but doesn't cost so much, and told him the other girls had acted foolishly. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
Besides the badly scarred skin, the failure can damage patients' urethra and rectum, which causes inconvenience and severe pain.
She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black. THE WHITE DOVE
With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
The landscape is scarred with great lumps of lava, volcanic plugs and long screes of volcanic soil, and there is also a vast barren sandy valley.
In my case, it just happened to be a rescue home in Ponca City, Oklahoma, where a tiny, emotionally and physically scarred Chihuahua waited for someone to take her home and give her a new life. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog
The lenses of my eyes are permanently scarred. The Sun
He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him. Intimate History
In these places are jagged cliffs falling almost vertical to the tide line, sea-scarred headlands defiantly forcing their way westwards, and fallen scree a remnant of aeons of erosion.
She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority.
She referred to an unadorned rectangular stone of some porous rock, perhaps two meters wide and three long, strangely scarred in places. Dwellers in the Crucible
Tattoos adorned her arms and the unscarred side of her face.
He touched the photograph with a scarred and weathered handa strange contrast to the neat spotlessness of his tweed cuffs. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
He flew more than 40,000 miles, hedge-hopped from camp to camp and from city to city, lived the life of an Army officer in dozens of dusty airports, flew to the front with American pilots, heard from their own lips their stories of combat as they stepped from bullet-scarred planes.
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?
She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority.
Much of it is bare wood, stained and scarred. The Times Literary Supplement
One lasted barely 10 hours; some of the others seemed deeply scarred by their experiences.
The surface is covered with layers of nitrogen and water ice that are scarred by meteor craters.
Caywood's rifle is built exactly as the original was when Davy took it from the scarred and stained hands of a gunmaker so long ago, and thus it's something like shaking hands with history.
Her porcelain skin is tightly pulled and obviously scarred, but she's beautiful. The Sun
Her badly scarred face seriously affects her speech and she worries for her future as a potential wife.
Not everyone who endures a traumatic experience is scarred by it; the human psyche has a tremendous capacity for recovery and even growth.
It was the tribute of overflowing life, & youth, health, ignorance of care—it was the tribute of free, unscarred, unsmitten nature to the good God that gave it! Mark Twain
It left her permanently scarred and blind in one eye. The Sun
The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
Their sides were pocked and scarred.
An encrusted gash scarred his forehead, and one side of his face was swollen with dying yellow bruises.
He may have lived through what he has described as an ‘age of extremes’ but he has emerged, aged 85, largely unscathed and unscarred.
He picked up a trail-scarred banjo from the floor and began to strum a few wandering notes. THE FAITH OF MEN
He sipped it for a moment, his large, scarred knuckles barely fitting into the hooked handle on the side of the cup.
Trial bags were badges of honor at my firm, the more beat up and battle-scarred, the better. A KING'S RANSOM
Young, with perfect, unscarred skin and no past to bear? Emily Farache: Lessons From a Bad Teacher in My Public School Education
JAKE SULLY a scarred and scruffy combat vet sitting in a beat up carbon - fiber wheelchair.
The future of many, badly scarred by falling debris and fires, remains uncertain.
But I am very proud of every penny of my taxes that go to the rehabilitation and care of those who return home physically and/or mentally damaged and scarred from the experience. Wounded Warrior Program urges funding for war vet caregivers
You are a scarred yet healed adult. Times, Sunday Times
To my battle scarred ears, it ranges between polished yet hookless groove lounge and out-and-out cheese.
With a bitter glare at his scarred right hand, he heaved on the rope and sent the unoffending log scooting another length across the ground.
She won't remember it or be emotionally scarred by it. Times, Sunday Times
The past has been scarred by countless mistrials and perversions of justice.
Brolin has to speak through his scarred mouth and that makes his words sort of mumbly. Jackie K. Cooper: Jonah Hex: Why Did They Make This Movie?
She suffered puncture wounds to both thighs and will be scarred for life.
In doing so, she was dreadfully burned and her face was permanently scarred.
Among those who returned from the war physically intact, many had been psychologically scarred.
The social networking giant is considering the shock move after technical glitches scarred its much-hyped debut last month. Times, Sunday Times
Our billet is a village with shell-scarred trees lining its streets, and grass peeping over its fallen masonry, a few inn signs still swing and look like corpses hanging; at night they creak as if in agony. The Red Horizon
Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile. AMERICAN GODS
In Australia, the driest continent on Earth, the land is scarred by salinization and in South America the destruction of the rainforest and changing weather patterns has led to drier, less humid conditions with less rainfall.
It left her permanently scarred and blind in one eye. The Sun
Huge cranes hang over a scarred landscape that is protected by guards. Times, Sunday Times
But when he wakes it is with three scarred stumps and a single working hand. Times, Sunday Times
The surface of the skin was smooth and unscarred.
The steep cliffs tumble abruptly into the sea, scarred by deep gorges which drip with greenery.
Each cargo lander will vary according to its place of manufacture, but almost all are brutal, ugly lumps of heat scarred metal with large open cargo bays hidden within.
She was not to be scarred for life, her career ruined, her future in tatters. DEATH IN FASHION
It turns out Emeraldas is already there, silently having a drink, and everyone is struck with awe when she pulls back her cloak and they see her scarecrow thin scarred self.
Plaque-clogged arteries in the abdomen suggest a red-meat eater; black-encrusted lungs signify long-term nicotine addiction; the faint indentation in the ulna is the scarred evidence of an arm broken in childhood. Body of Knowledge
With his gammy knees, so scarred and unsightly - he opted out of wearing a kilt at the opening of France 98 - he was in discomfort as he hirpled up a set of steps in Zagreb's Maksimir Stadium four nights ago.
With a scarred face, glass eye (the pupil of his left eye in the shape of a U.S. Eagle), upswept moustache, slicked down hair, a top hat and that wicked smile, Day-Lewis is memorable.
Tony, Janina & Brian are reunited in America once again, scarred but hopeful to restore their American Dream. Ruth Leitman: Tony & Janina, Chasing the American Dream... Again
Most of Baghdad - overwhelmingly - is unscarred physically by the war.
But tonight, when he stumbles off to the sullen stares of passengers eager to arrive at their own lonely climes, he'll grab his bag from the belly of the bus, and hear his heeltaps on the scarred, grooved tile.
If eBay is the spawn of the next generation of dotcom boomers, perhaps it is appropriate that helping it along its wave of success is a battle-scarred veteran of the former, rampageous tech era. Whitman Appoints Veteran Swan As EBay CFO
The man had been beaten thoroughly and not an inch of his body was left unscarred.
Filler injections are used to smooth scarred, wrinkled, or furrowed skin on the face.
The past has been scarred by countless mistrials and perversions of justice.
He was probably scarred for life, but his parents must have been delighted at their ingenuity.
Earl is in his sixties, black, and scarred on his arms and I would assume the rest of him.
Gainful work will save a generation scarred by unemployment. Times, Sunday Times
Polynesians tattooed the thighs and buttocks of nubile girls; Africans scarred them.
A man who glassed a teenager in the face leaving him scarred for life faces being banned from every licensed premises in Bradford.
While more successful now than ever, he has not been left unscarred by his earlier excess.
The wind had dropped and the sky had cleared; the moon was unscarred by clouds. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Hopefully these two sacrificial candidates will take punches and hog headlines to the bitter end before handing the baton to an unscarred nominee that is actually electable. Why The GOP Needs Palin And Gingrich
We set off in an open cart drawn by four whip-scarred little oxen and piled high with equipment and provisions.
I learned early in my career that if I was delivering a women who had had a previous clitorectomy, I needed to cut a good episiotomy, even if she had had prior children, because the scarred upper portion of her genital tract would massively tear at delivery. Ending Genital Mutilation, Village by Village
Their faces are scarred from infections caused by sandfly bites, and they are dressed in filthy rags.
I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province.
There was a scarred and battered and ancient billiard-table in the garret, and along with it a peck of checked and chipped balls, and a rackful of crooked and headless cues. Chapters from My Autobiography
In his big, single bedroom stood a scarred desk and a four-poster bed clouded in mosquito netting. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin.
But with Veronica there was the sense of a real face behind the mask, scarred by experiences, passions and hurts.
As an anthropological experiment/exercise in masochism, I dragged my husband and some pals to see Bride Wars on opening night earlier this year and I’m still scarred. Amy Adams 'Leap Year' trailer: More than just another witless rom-com? Or...not? | EW.com
Kirby came of age in the 1930s, was toughened by his Depression boyhood and perhaps scarred by his frontline experiences in World War Two.
She has confided in me that she's afraid her son has been scarred for life by his father's treatment.
The segment with the scarred supermodel is the weakest of the three, in that we're never allowed as close to these characters, thus restraining their dimensions and our own sympathies.
the scarred piano bench
He needed to be tough to withstand the personal attacks from the press that scarred his tenure. Times, Sunday Times
The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
The tree, in the car park of St John the Baptist Church, was ‘badly scarred’ by the incident and a tree specialist told Millward that it will probably suffer from woodworm and rot.
The bos'n's mate was a heavy man, bald, with a scarred and brutal face.
She will probably be scarred for life .
Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting.
I managed to take the bandage off, and stared for a few seconds at the unscarred skin.
Among them were both female and male, clothed in tattered dark garb, skin pale and sometimes scarred in the case of the males.
His skin was scarred and rough; the heavy brows were turned in a stubborn frown even in sleep.
Meanwhile, the scarred veteran Inman is experiencing his own harrowing, perilous odyssey as the Civil War rages on.
Just below the booming Yukon town, Clay climbs the scarred and gullied "slide" of Moosehide Mountain and, with his body chilling, his fingers frost-bitten, he slips and slides down in a small avalanche, then regains his balance and attains the summit. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
There were fast new attack transports, slow rust-scarred freighters, small ocean liners, Channel steamers, hospital ships, weather-beaten tankers, coaster and swarms of fussing tugs.
The social networking giant is considering the shock move after technical glitches scarred its much-hyped debut last month. Times, Sunday Times
The scarred dandy of a coati in particular looked like a tough customer. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Too often, film or television projects from well-intentioned people are unmarketable, poorly executed and scarred with red flags that signify the work of an amateur.
With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
Her youth and beauty are still just visible beneath her thickened, scarred lips and the alcoholic puffiness of her face.
What was the horror of the editor, on the following day, to see the expression reappear in his apology as "bottle-scarred"! The Booklover and His Books
The prison building is as scarred and formidably ugly as the men it houses. Times, Sunday Times
The Arctic is a land of incredible and unscarred beauty which deserves to be preserved.
The skin disease scarred his face permanently
The city retains its heritage, culture, architecture and environment and the people seem to be relatively unscarred as well.
The use of defoliants such as Agent Orange and various herbicides scarred the landscape and caused untold human costs.
There was no way she was going to get out of that unscarred. What a Relief
The land is scarred and many of the people have left. Times, Sunday Times
My family is still scarred from the war you got us into in Iraq. Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war
She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures. She Closed Her Eyes
Hence, it is obvious that she will be forever scarred by it.
Both were ugly, over-large and battle-scarred; and both tended to eccentric movement under stress. STAGE FRIGHT
It left her permanently scarred and blind in one eye. The Sun
One couple run into the killer who is hideously scarred by a very bad latex effect.
His face was jagged and scarred, his features aged and ugly, deformed over many years of struggle.
But when he wakes it is with three scarred stumps and a single working hand. Times, Sunday Times
In he limped, a scarred, brooding figure, whose powerful chilling effect on the men was diluted somewhat when his ivory leg became momentarily stuck in a knothole. Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks
A client with acne and scarred skin can expect to see an enormous reduction of scar tissue, pitting and spots. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
Larvae that had consumed leaf material frequently had green coloured alimentary canals, green frass and a portion of the leaf surface was scarred.
The surface is covered with layers of nitrogen and water ice that are scarred by meteor craters.
Unlike some other areas of Africa, like Senegal, which have been inundated with aid workers and tourists, Mali remains comparatively unscarred by foreign intrusion.
In some places the stone is pocked and scarred by the corrosive effects of black sulphates.
Rams quarterback Tony Banks may be permanently scarred playing against the 49ers.
He pulls through after surgery - but is left badly scarred. The Sun
The cat pounced on it and took the meat to the back of the bar, under a pool table with a scarred, green felt surface.
Troubled Temple Hill is scarred by youth crime, most notably with graffiti tags all over walls and homes.
The man who emerged from the cabin was in his mid-thirties with a cruel face scarred from years of teenage acne. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
My lungs are so badly scarred that the smallest irritant can cause me to have trouble breathing.
New renal scars do not develop after age four in unscarred kidneys.
The complainant suffered several blows which left his fist mildly scarred.
I don’t expect a bald, scarred supervillain stroking his cat in every Bond film, but I do like it when the two seem like they are evenly matched, either in wits, physicality, or both. Movie Review: Quantum of Solace | /Film

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