Scatter

//ˈskætə//

"Scatter" in a Sentence (22 examples)

Don't scatter your things about.

Scatter, you chickens!

Where did you scatter them?

For an idea to germinate and to be fruitful, it is necessary to scatter its seeds in the appropriate season.

"Strike force to the winds, sink and overwhelm the ships; or drive them apart and scatter their bodies on the sea."

"Go, set the storm-winds free, / and sink their ships or scatter them astray, / and strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey."

Scatter a little flour on the work surface.

Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

If the moon landing was real, they ask, why didn't the lander scatter dust when it touched down? In reality, the lander was traveling horizontally much of the time and the thrusters that controlled its landing were not pointed down. Radiation from the sun also made the dust highly charged and it clung to the moon’s surface.

When the emperor Titus was dying, he said, "Burn this body, and scatter its ashes across the seven seas, so that the God of the Jews will not find me and stand in judgment over me."

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The crowd scattered in fright.

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

The fish scattered along the waterfall.

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not known who created the ring or when.

to scatter hopes or plans

Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.

[…] its beauty is obscured by the environmental waste and loose trash that scatter the countryside.

When the police showed up, I scattered.

The Los Angeles Basin evolved as a mobility surface principally through the combination of an initial system of electric railways connecting a scatter of agricultural settlement settlements.

A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.

The plot of all our sea-level index points shows a scatter of data points that do not overlap […]

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