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Example sentences for "scathed"

Lexicographically close words:
scarum; scarves; scary; scat; scathe; scatheless; scathing; scathingly; scathless; scats
  1. In the centre of a green patch, scarcely a pistol-shot from the dismantled tower, the scathed stem of a solitary oak was standing.

  2. On a scathed beam, I fancied I could perceive a human form attached.

  3. Summer came and went, and hardly a sound of joy was heard amid all the hills and valleys of beautiful but war-scathed France.

  4. Wretched, war-scathed France was now distracted by three parties.

  5. While these scenes were transpiring in the vicinity of Dieppe, almost every part of France was scathed and cursed by hateful war.

  6. Near the top of the cliff grew a scathed cedar, clinging with its hardy roots into a cleft in its face, and leaning threateningly over the flood.

  7. The disease, which has left him, in the eyes of men, a scathed and blighted tree, has driven him back to Nature, and she has not refused him sympathy.

  8. O, Father, give me a bud on my tree of life, so scathed by the lightning and bound by the frost!

  9. Even now a windy turbulence troubled the half-naked boughs, and a lonely leaf would occasionally spin downwards to rejoin on the grass the scathed multitude of its comrades which had preceded it in its fall.

  10. Somerset, feeling that he had now every reason for prowling about the castle, remained near the spot, endeavouring to evolve some plan of procedure for the project entertained by the beautiful owner of those weather-scathed walls.

  11. Not a leaf had been left on the vines to screen a marksman, not a hand's breadth of green but had been scathed and shrivelled by fire within a bowshot of the walls.

  12. All that there burns its hour away--but sears The scathed Remembrance of long coming years.

  13. A second had dropped upon his knees; while three or four others had been scathed by scattering shots.

  14. At this port La Salle found fragments of many war-scathed tribes, in a half-starving condition.

  15. Resuming their journey, they soon passed the scathed region and entered again upon a country of bloom and verdure.

  16. For now prone he saw Grendel stretched there, spent with war, spoiled of life, so scathed had left him Heorot's battle.

  17. Bodies scathed and persons struck dead were thought to be incorruptible;[594] and a stroke not fatal conferred perpetual dignity upon the man so distinguished by heaven.

  18. The sides of the glen were broken banks of earth and rocks of rotten stone, which sunk sheer down to the little winding stream below, affording here and there a tuft of scathed brushwood or a patch of furze.

  19. Scathed by the fiery blast of death meant only for my foe!

  20. On I went in a direct line towards the scathed pine of which Sidor had told me.

  21. Keep straight on the way I showed you yesterday, till you come to a tree scathed and blasted by lightning.


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