Example Sentences

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Pick something for the Surge to focus on, you scatterbrains.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

"Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Am I to blame because I detest theatres and concerts, and those artistic soir�es to which he wished to drag me, and where he met his old acquaintances, a lot of scatterbrains, dissipated and Bohemian?

From Artists' Wives by Ensor, Laura

My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

It was by my contrivance, incorrigible scatterbrains, that Anselmo undertook this desirable purchase; she should have been placed into my own hands, but your cursed officiousness knocks everything on the head again.

From The Blunderer by Molière