SCAFFOLD in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for SCAFFOLD, such as:
1. He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.
2. He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him.
3. Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
4. Before painting the house, the workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the second story.
5. It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not at least, stand on the scaffold by her side.
2. He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him.
3. Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
4. Before painting the house, the workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the second story.
5. It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not at least, stand on the scaffold by her side.
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Meanings and Examples of SCAFFOLD
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scaffold
n. temporary platform for workers; bracing framework; platform for execution
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
2 With almost a serene deportment, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her ordeal, and came to a sort of scaffold, at the western extremity of the market-place.
3 Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
4 It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not at least, stand on the scaffold by her side.
5 He felt his limbs growing stiff with the unaccustomed chilliness of the night, and doubted whether he should be able to descend the steps of the scaffold.
6 All people, in a word, would come stumbling over their thresholds, and turning up their amazed and horror-stricken visages around the scaffold.
7 All the time that he gazed upward to the zenith, he was, nevertheless, perfectly aware that little Pearl was pointing her finger towards old Roger Chillingworth, who stood at no great distance from the scaffold.
8 It was found," said the Sexton, "this morning on the scaffold where evil-doers are set up to public shame.
9 As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
10 During all this time, Hester stood, statue-like, at the foot of the scaffold.
11 He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
12 They beheld the minister, leaning on Hester's shoulder, and supported by her arm around him, approach the scaffold, and ascend its steps; while still the little hand of the sin-born child was clasped in his.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
13 After many days, when time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference to the foregoing scene, there was more than one account of what had been witnessed on the scaffold.
14 Its spell, however, was still potent, and kept the scaffold awful where the poor minister had died, and likewise the cottage by the sea-shore where Hester Prynne had dwelt.
15 He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him.
Example Sentence:
1 Before painting the house, the workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the second story.
2 Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.