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Example sentences for "scamped"

Lexicographically close words:
scalplock; scalps; scaly; scammony; scamp; scamper; scampered; scampering; scampers; scamps
  1. Before you begin to tell me how you scamped it, give me a hint or two about piling, and say what you have learned from experience.

  2. I never scamped the materials, except a bit of ballast here and there, and that is soon made up.

  3. There was no scamped work in those benighted ages, for scamped work meant death--not a fortune.

  4. In actual life twenty minutes are allotted for the scamped eating time of the railway station, and we all feel it as a grievance.

  5. The short story that is all too brief, the vaudeville turn, the magazine habit of reading a host of unrelated scamped trifles, all militate against the habit of concentrated attention; all the more reason why it should be cultivated.

  6. Were adulteration and scamped work the only devices by which sham reductions of prices was effected?

  7. This was done by adulteration and scamped work, and the practice extended in the nineteenth century to every branch of industry and commerce and affected pretty nearly all articles of human consumption.

  8. Moreover I have rather an eye for scamped carpentry: learned it off my father, going about the property with him.

  9. He had moved into these new quarters while I was down in Warwickshire, and the man who put in the windows had scamped his job.

  10. Rooms for which the customers paid to have three coats of paint were scamped with one or two.

  11. The result is that a job which--if it were done properly--would employ say twenty men for two months, is rushed and scamped in half that time with half that number of men.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scamped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.