How do you use Scarecrow in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like strawman or effigy, plus the exact meaning.
Scarecrow meaning
- An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there.
- A person or animal regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
- Synonym of crow scarer (“a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields”).
Synonyms of Scarecrow
Using Scarecrow
- The main meaning on this page is: An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. | A person or animal regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes. | Synonym of crow scarer (“a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields”).
- Useful related words include: straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer.
- In the example corpus, scarecrow often appears in combinations such as: the scarecrow, scarecrow press, scarecrow festival.
Context around Scarecrow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scarecrow
- In this selection, "scarecrow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, supertato, own, lion, festival, trail and building stand out and add context to how "scarecrow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the scarecrow as they and and the scarecrow lion the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scarecrow" sits close to words such as abelian, acer and agrippina, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scarecrow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Upper Severn Scarecrow Festival near Llanidloes. (6 words)
But I think it might be Scarecrow. (7 words)
Story Time Scarecrow Trail winners with their Supertato scarecrow. (9 words)
As the camera pans across Oz before the song "No One Mourns the Wicked," audiences can briefly see Dorothy alongside the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow as they journey down the Yellow Brick Road. (37 words)
The production itself was great, with lots of moving parts, and lots of costumes and whoever worked on the Tinman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion costumes needs a big pat on the back - they were great. (35 words)
When the Scarecrow Invasion was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, I wrote an editorial in which I suggested that though the event was cancelled, we could still fill this community with scarecrows. (34 words)
Families are invited to go on a magical, moonlit journey following the characters Dorothy, Toto, the Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman, as they try to find the Emerald City without encountering the Wicked Witch! (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Story Time Scarecrow Trail winners with their Supertato scarecrow.
But I think it might be Scarecrow.
Dan Badrick showed his acting range as The Scarecrow from his previous performance in an entirely different role as Dandini in the 2022 Christmas panto, Cinderella.
Each year, the town hosts its own scarecrow festival with hundreds of residents and businesses designing their own.
Extreme horror, the times in which the Scarecrow was holding off Ghost Rider with human shields and the Darkhold Redeemers were holding the door back against chaos.
Families are invited to go on a magical, moonlit journey following the characters Dorothy, Toto, the Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman, as they try to find the Emerald City without encountering the Wicked Witch!
In conjunction with Scarecrow Building Contest, Washington County Historical Society will be hosting it annual history homecoming.
Scarecrow – a metal stand-up built to look like an officer tracking speeds with a radar gun – and volunteer speed watchers.
Scarecrow would recruit her as his partner, and would have made his live-action debut in the film, which was originally set for a 1999 premiere.
The fancy dress was a particular highlight with Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians and the Scarecrow, Lion, the Tin Man and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz turning up.
The production itself was great, with lots of moving parts, and lots of costumes and whoever worked on the Tinman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion costumes needs a big pat on the back - they were great.
The rumors of Dick Grayson, Clayface, Hush, Professor Pyg & Scarecrow appearing in The Batman 2? They just got a big "nope" from James Gunn.
Upper Severn Scarecrow Festival near Llanidloes.
We’ve recently received figures for Mr. Freeze, Riddler, and Scarecrow, but of course, Batman’s number one villain will always be The Joker.
When the Scarecrow Invasion was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, I wrote an editorial in which I suggested that though the event was cancelled, we could still fill this community with scarecrows.
As the camera pans across Oz before the song "No One Mourns the Wicked," audiences can briefly see Dorothy alongside the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow as they journey down the Yellow Brick Road.
He quickly bonded with others in the cast, especially the ones he spends the most time with on stage: Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Kyle Ramar Freeman as Lion and Avery Wilson as Scarecrow.
Jeremy Papasso/ Staff Photographer Josh Jackson, as the “Tin Man,” carries his son Leif, as the Scarecrow, while trick-or-treating during the Munchkin Masquerade in 2019 on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.
Now, he performs with Nevada Ballet Theatre, taking on lead roles like Siegfried in Ben Stevenson’s and Scarecrow in Septime Webre’s Besides dancing, Robert is studying business at Penn State World Campus.
The event on Saturday, September 14 in the village included live performances, a scarecrow competition and dance workshops.
Common combinations with scarecrow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the scarecrow 30×
- scarecrow press 11×
- scarecrow festival 5×
- scarecrow and 5×
- scarecrow in 4×
- with scarecrow 3×
- and scarecrow 3×
- uk scarecrow 3×
- scarecrow building 2×
- scarecrow as 2×