Wondering how to use Scandal in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dirt or gossip.
Scandal in a sentence
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Scandal meaning
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
Using Scandal
- The main meaning on this page is: An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved. | Damage to one's reputation. | Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- Useful related words include: dirt, malicious gossip, gossip, comment.
- In the example corpus, scandal often appears in combinations such as: the scandal, scandal and, scandal in.
Context around Scandal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scandal
- In this selection, "scandal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seen, corruption, secondary, harm, fast and mccain stand out and add context to how "scandal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include have seen scandal after scandal, mired in scandal after scandal, corruption scandal and cheating scandal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scandal" sits close to words such as keen, diplomatic and jeff, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scandal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Porter scandal has officially become a Trump scandal. (9 words)
Sadly, Mandela’s South Africa is mired in scandal after scandal. (11 words)
Over the past nine years, we have seen scandal after scandal. (11 words)
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify before Congress on the company’s recent privacy scandal because while Facebook has been embroiled in similar situations in the past, the fallout from this recent scandal is particularly severe. (39 words)
But more to the point, Dowd is a seasoned Washington hand who represented Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the Keating Five scandal (McCain was cleared) and helped a retired Air Force colonel in the Iran Contra scandal. (38 words)
While Miss Crawley likes Becky and keeps her around to entertain her with sarcasm and wit, and while she loves scandal and particularly stories of unwise marriage, she does not want scandal or unwise marriage in her family. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sadly, Mandela’s South Africa is mired in scandal after scandal.
A secondary scandal when the public learned LDP officials funneled a hefty amount of the party’s campaign funding to politicians tainted by the scandal in a desperate last-ditch bid to help them keep their seats.
Kishida replaced four of his Cabinet ministers linked to the scandal in December in an attempt to mitigate the scandal that has rocked his party and grip on power.
Over the past nine years, we have seen scandal after scandal.
The left has been trying to turn Epstein's scandal into a Trump scandal for years without success because Epstein had connections to a lot of powerful people and politicians — mostly Democrats.
The past few years have seen scandal after scandal harm the Stanford administration’s reputation.
The private university has been mired in scandal after scandal in recent years.
Yep Joe, Trump can learn that Barack spied on reporters, spied on Congressmen, spied on the Trump campaign with illegal warrants and then there was the IRS scandal, the VA scandal, fast and furious and Hillary Benghazi.
During Bernhardt’s past tenure as Interior Solicitor during the George W. Bush administration, the department was similarly plagued by scandal and corruption, including having high-level officials involved in the ex-casino lobbyist Jack Abramoff scandal.
An Italian judge on Thursday sentenced two defendants to jail in the first leg of trials of the biggest graft scandal in the global oil industry: the Malabu Oil $1.1 billion bribery scandal.
But more to the point, Dowd is a seasoned Washington hand who represented Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the Keating Five scandal (McCain was cleared) and helped a retired Air Force colonel in the Iran Contra scandal.
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify before Congress on the company’s recent privacy scandal because while Facebook has been embroiled in similar situations in the past, the fallout from this recent scandal is particularly severe.
Najib Razak: Scandal-hit ex-Malaysia PM condemns police raidsThe raids at properties linked to the ousted prime minister were linked to a big corruption scandal.
The Porter scandal has officially become a Trump scandal.
Victim of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife sex-for-mark scandal, Monica Osagie has said the lecturer at the centre of the scandal, Prof. Richard Akindele used to be her mentor.
Backes, formerly the third highest-ranking officer of Clearstream and a primary source for Denis Robert 's book on Clearstream's scandal, Revelation$, claims he "was fired because (he) knew too much about the Ambrosiano scandal.
Generic drug scandal In 1989, a major scandal erupted involving the procedures used by the FDA to approve generic drugs for sale to the public.
This affair caused a great scandal in some countries (Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people); the scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar Rossellini.
While Miss Crawley likes Becky and keeps her around to entertain her with sarcasm and wit, and while she loves scandal and particularly stories of unwise marriage, she does not want scandal or unwise marriage in her family.
A corruption scandal in the Popular Party prompted Vox to splinter off in 2013.
Phrases with scandal
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with scandal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the scandal 38×
- scandal and 16×
- scandal in 11×
- scandal that 10×
- in scandal 7×
- corruption scandal 7×
- of scandal 7×
- scandal which 7×
- scandal after 5×
- scandal is 5×