How do you use Scotched in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Scotched meaning
simple past and past participle of scotch
Using Scotched
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of scotch
- In the example corpus, scotched often appears in combinations such as: scotched the.
Context around Scotched
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scotched
- In this selection, "scotched" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hop, saturday, hbf, sunday, rumours and plans stand out and add context to how "scotched" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afterwards nme scotched the story and and hbf scotched plans to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scotched" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scotched
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hwy 12 in Sonoma County, Ca. hop-scotched Sunday night. (10 words)
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday scotched rumours on his ill health saying he is fine and free from disease. (22 words)
Johnson blamed Gove for Badenoch’s decision and made it known that a planned knighthood for Gove in his resignation honours had been scotched. (24 words)
The subsequent Bush administration, including hawks like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney scotched efforts by Colin Powell’s State Department to follow up the Clinton diplomacy. (30 words)
Not-for-profit health funds HCF and HBF scotched plans to merge last year, saying it became clear joining forces would not have been in their members' best interests. (29 words)
Soon afterwards, NME scotched the story, also citing "sources close to the band", and quoting Johnny Marr's manager to the effect that it was "rubbish". (26 words)
Example sentences (7)
Johnson blamed Gove for Badenoch’s decision and made it known that a planned knighthood for Gove in his resignation honours had been scotched.
Hwy 12 in Sonoma County, Ca. hop-scotched Sunday night.
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday scotched rumours on his ill health saying he is fine and free from disease.
Not-for-profit health funds HCF and HBF scotched plans to merge last year, saying it became clear joining forces would not have been in their members' best interests.
The rumours that they might reconcile was firmly scotched when Imran married the journalist and former BBC weather girl, Reham Khan, in January 2015.
The subsequent Bush administration, including hawks like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney scotched efforts by Colin Powell’s State Department to follow up the Clinton diplomacy.
Soon afterwards, NME scotched the story, also citing "sources close to the band", and quoting Johnny Marr's manager to the effect that it was "rubbish".
Common combinations with scotched
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: