scar
noun
a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
scars
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present tense formof scar (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He’s got one foot on the so-called safe path — college, white-collar isolation — and the other on a career that’s already covering him in well-earned scars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Its inhabitants were rebuilding but the scars remained: Her grandmother survived the blast but with terrible injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
She says she had the surgery, which left scars.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Marshall Islands' President Hilda Heine cited the weight of these historical nuclear scars in criticising China's missile.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
They passed men and women dressed in shabby tunics, some nursing freshly bandaged wounds from encounters with beasts, some marked by more permanent injuries Eke old scars and missing fingers.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
