SCORE in a Sentence

Learn SCORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
184 example sentences for SCORE, such as:
1. I walked a score of miles.
2. Men by the score sat around him.
3. The score calls for a contralto.
4. Famine plagued a score of nations.
5. The score was close in the final match.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SCORE
score
 n.  a set of twenty members
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  It was gently, but it was calmly said, and Sir Thomas was easy on the score of the cousins.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Crawford called the next day, and on the score of Edmund's return, Sir Thomas felt himself more than licensed to ask him to stay dinner; it was really a necessary compliment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  'Don't fret your eyelids on that score,' said the young gentleman.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  There were twenty score of violent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  They were about a score of the small wild ponies known as heath-croppers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
8  I have had a bitter experience on that score this last month, Diggory.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
9  All that an honest man can promise you I promise now, which is that from me you shall never suffer anything on this score again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
10  The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
11  They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  There I found a second great hall covered with cushions, upon which, perhaps, a score or so of the little people were sleeping.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
14  Scarlett silently damned the Yankees and added another mark on her score against them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  His total score was one hundred and fifty five.
2  At the end of the game, total up everyone's score to see who has won.
3  The music students are learning how to score tunes for various combinations.
4  I'll let you have the money, so there's nothing to worry about on that score.
5  The score was close in the final match.
6  Our coach was escorted by a score of policemen.
7  The computer will crunch all the numbers to determine the final score.
8  The director invited him to score the movie.
9  He wasn't even trying to score - the ball just bounced off the jammy beggar's/bastard's head into the goal.
10  She bragged endlessly about her high score.
11  They had many bad experiences to relate on this score.
12  The score calls for a contralto.
13  Famine plagued a score of nations.
14  I walked a score of miles.
15  Men by the score sat around him.