How To Use Scoffing In A Sentence
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Their owners will be scoffing a soggy sandwich before hitting the road to the next meeting.
The Sun
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I'm only responsible for scoffing the plain ones.
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I scoffed at the idea of such a thing when it first struck me, just as many of you are scoffing now.
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Their guest made a loud scoffing noise and stood up, violently pushing back his chair so that it rucked up the carpet.
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` ` Mony thanks to ye, 'he said, scoffingly, ` ` for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.' '
The Black Dwarf
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The unfortunate party members, staying in seedy bed-and-breakfasts on shoestring budgets, are reduced to scoffing free booze and vol-au-vents at corporate receptions.
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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Mony thanks to ye," he said, scoffingly, "for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi 'that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.
The Black Dwarf
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Schools were closed for the first time in 12 years in the Windy City, known for scoffing at the kind of wintery weather that cripples less hardy cities.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an [6648] Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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For this amateurish smacktalker to get mentioned as a potential replacement – without immediate scoffing from the White House – screams that things are going from incompetent to worse on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Think Progress » Fox’s Tony Snow responds to ThinkProgress commenters
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One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic.
Chortle News RSS
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So it was not only the scoffing of infidels which spread the conviction that the religious life of France needed comprehensive reform.
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I find not myself concerned in his ensuing talk, but only in one reflection on the words of the Scripture, and the repetition of his old, putid, and shameless calumny, p. 108, until we come to p. 126, where he arraigns an occasional discourse of mine about the necessity of holiness and good works; wherein he hath only filched out of the whole what he thought he could wrest unto his end, and scoffingly descant upon.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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Igor was busy most of the time scoffing a hamburger, which he propped up on the music stand before and after solos.
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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Their owners will be scoffing a soggy sandwich before hitting the road to the next meeting.
The Sun
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Constable Kwesi Millington, the Taserman who seems to have more stories in his repertoire than Sheherezade, demonstrated yesterday how Dziekanski used it "combatively," prompting so many scoffing noises and derisive snorts from the audience that Thomas Braidwood had to call for order.
Archive 2009-03-01
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But the A9 was choked with roadworks and elderly Germans in caravans, causing much crankiness and scoffing of chocolate digestives.
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Only, I must grant that herein they have had some that have gone before them, -- namely, the old scoffing heathens; for so doth Lucian, in his Philopatris [18], speak in imitation of a Christian by way of scorn, Lege, para tou Pneumatos dunamin tou logou labon; -- "Speak out now, receiving power or ability of speaking from the Spirit," or "by the Spirit.
Pneumatologia
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Not content with dressing up as a giant grain of sweetcorn to amuse chip-scoffing children, the celebrity chef has extracted £220m from the government to improve school meals in England.
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Times reporter John Broder, writing from Jasper, Ind., does open by quoting a politician who cites scripture in scoffing at "climate change":
Standards and Practices
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There were hundreds of them, scoffing the free nosh and hoovering down the drink and wittering on as if they were the saviours of the world.
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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After Anaximenes came some one jolly, scoffing, and yet profound: the philosopher-poet Xenopha-nes.
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Thanks Carol for the info, we are not big movie goers but occassionally one we want to see is only on at the local art house as was 9/11 until last week ... audience was older (50-60-70) than I would hope to have seen and the comments were about divided afterwards in scoffing at it as an orchestrated sound bite political commercial or saying I told you so, now it all makes sense ....
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But they gave the trolls some food for thought by heading out to a restaurant and posting images of themselves scoffing burgers and macaroni cheese.
The Sun
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He believed that independence was the first duty of a literary man, and that true dignity consists in diligent labor rather than in indolent railing at fate and the scoffings of "uncomprehended" genius.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days.
The Undertaker's Racket
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He was to live, it appeared, abominably worried, he was to live consciously rueful, he was to live perhaps even what a scoffing world would call abjectly exposed; but at least he was to live saved.
The Finer Grain
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And here I am scoffing grapefruit, kiwi fruit, and granadilla in one sitting, plus muesli and yoghurt for breakfast - and I can't get enough of it.
The Orange Problem
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“Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.”
The Black Dwarf
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“And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?” said the old dame, scoffingly.
The Black Dwarf
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At any rate, I now find myself in the position of being much like my friend, correcting people and scoffing at them behind their back.
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Out of the corner of my eye I noted Patterson scoffing in disbelief.
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But they gave the trolls some food for thought by heading out to a restaurant and posting images of themselves scoffing burgers and macaroni cheese.
The Sun
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If the locals aren't scoffing ripe fruit and fresh pasta from the table they are lying flat out on it, getting a massage.
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Fearless of scoffing, and of the ostent, let us take our stand, our ground, and never desert it, to confront the growing excess and arrogance of realism.
Democratic Vistas: Paras. 90–119. Collect
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While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose.
Slashdot: Book Reviews
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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The beast was sozzled after scoffing fermented fruit.
The Sun
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Did she just think her trousers had shrunk, or she had been scoffing too many army rations?
Times, Sunday Times
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Next thing we know, he has been scoffing spaghetti carbonara at an Italian eatery.
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_in ano_, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing _Pasquil_ wrote, _Vleus vesicae renum dolor in peno scirrus_.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Wearing anything from period costume to Lycra leggings, the teams also have to perform tasks such as scoffing a piece of cake or bobbing an apple at various points.
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She isn't giving up without a fight; she's scoffing broccoli heads and noni juice and shark liver oil.
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Cary took him by the hand, and asked pardon of him for his scoffing, saying that he had that day played the best man of all of them; and Jack, who never bore malice, began laughing in his turn, and — “Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.”
Westward Ho!
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The beast was sozzled after scoffing fermented fruit.
The Sun
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But I still detected some misgivings - and not only among the press corps scoffing moussaka between briefings.
