scaffold
Example Sentences
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When a nerve is cut it sprouts a basic scaffold that it tries to regenerate along, but which only last about 10 days.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
"It acts like a scaffold for nerves to grow along like a rose on a trellis," Dr Alex Woods explains, holding threads of silk worthy of Spider-man.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Sir Thomas More on the scaffold of Tower Hill comforted his executioner and was reported by a witness to have repositioned his beard on the block, joking it had committed no treason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
Ramos then boarded a suspended scaffold and was lifted high above his hometown, where he spent four to five hours adding his tag and the slogan “Back 2 Back.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
The boy she knew might have been the scaffold, but something new had been built upon it.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing scaffold
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