Example Sentences

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“I expect Nature will scalp me some of these days.”

From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The broad blunt nose will scalp off the growths without any injury to the normal basal tissues.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

This machine, of Hungarian origin, is simply a collection of superimposed flat sieves in one box, and will scalp or sort out any kind of break stock very efficiently.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various