Example Sentences

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The question is no longer whether the latest revelation will scandalize Jim Bob sitting in a truck stop, but whether or not it's legally substantive evidence to be included in articles of impeachment.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2019

I am going to seek my romance—true romance: love-affairs, duels, and—Ah, Don Juan, I will scandalize your ghost!

From The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts by Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper)

At any rate you must all be ready now to judge the religious life by its results exclusively, and I shall assume that the bugaboo of morbid origin will scandalize your piety no more.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Between tucks, Father Dominic will inquire casually into the state of my soul, and the information thus elicited will scandalize the old saint.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Their perfection aureoled I will scandalize: Won't I be a hoary old sinner in their eyes!

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)