Example Sentences

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Some of the many fanciful gingerbread buildings that arose there were supposedly designed by the scandalously famous architect Stanford White and bore a resemblance to the Hotel del Coronado, which opened the same year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

In the past, private equity business tactics have been linked to scandalously bad care at some dental clinics that treated children from low-income families.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

He scandalously traded his wife Augusta for a younger woman, the former Elizabeth McCourt Doe, and lost all his money when silver collapsed.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

The famous “flappers” of the 1920s, young women in the latest fashion who danced to cutting-edge American jazz and wore scandalously short, knee-length dresses, were the ultimate expression of the New Woman.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

This is still scandalously high, higher in fact than my aftertax weekly pay will amount to.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich