Score

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"Score" in a Sentence (56 examples)

I almost got a perfect score.

What was the score at halftime?

Each package contains a score of cigarettes.

It's the best score up to now.

The final score of the game was 3 to 1.

The score is 9 to 2 in favor of our school.

The score is one all.

The lower a golf score is, the better.

When applying to American universities, your TOEFL score is only one factor.

What's your score?

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The player with the highest score is the winner.

The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!

The test scores for this class were high.

The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.

At Markes full fortie score they vs'd to Prick and Roue.

DEVLIN:You know the apple and core. Head might cost you a score, or more if you want a meat show on all fours.

Some words have scores of meanings.

Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score.

But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.

You act your kindneſs on Cydaria’s ſcore.

The local village priest is expected to pass through the Holi bonfire, which, in the opinion of the faithful, cannot burn him. Indeed he holds his land rent-free simply on the score of his being fire-proof.

Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.

He parted well, and paid his score.

Let's pull a score!

Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from. Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark? Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?

He made a big score.

Ah, who gives a shit? The only score I'm interested in is the one I might make if some foxy chicks start pilin' outta there.

Above the harbour, steeply up the hill, run The Bolts, narrow stepped passages, equivalent of The Scores of Lowestoft and The Rows of Great Yarmouth.

Robson counted 92 exemplars of Gilgamesh and Huwawa A and 59 of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld (“Tablet House,” 54). Since that time, several joins have reduced the number of distinct copies, so that Delnero’s score for Gilgamesh and Huwawa A now includes 85 total, mostly of the Type III extract category (Variation in Sumerian Literary Compositions: A Case Study Based on the Decad, University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., 2006).

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.

"Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."

In the past decade gay people have scored a number of significant advances.

It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.

Pelé scores again!

And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.

No, Butthead, that's my point. You didn't score. You got a zero.

At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.

Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time, researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids who also scored above average.

[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!

I scored some drugs last night.

Did you score tickets for the concert?

What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score

I jump up, bubble up, what's in store? / Love is the drug and I need to score

Chris finally scored with Pat last week.

Gotta find a chick who'll give you more / Well, there's a spot that I've discovered / Where a guy's guaranteed to score

A red-blooded American male who once scored with reality TV stars, he [Sean Duffy] is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives, publicly pledging his commitment to his wife and their old Chrysler minivan.

Critics scored the game 92%.

[…] this was the case for most students, who scored it highly (medians of 4 with many scores of 5) […]

Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.

Robertson scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.

[…] and the scoring for a start by these "inferior" horses would kill a thoroughbred. As an instance, in the 2:27 race at Cleveland, last summer, twelve horses scored seventeen times before they got a fair start.

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