Example Sentences

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The reporters had scalped him, metaphorically speaking, and his brain was seething.

From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis

It was this "Satan Montgomery" whom Macaulay had scalped with merciless criticism in the Edinburgh Review.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

Taken at his fullest inventory he had "scalped" a living out of the world for which he had done but little to make happier or better.

From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas