scarred
Example Sentences
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But governments scarred by recent experience will want more than a return to normal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Los Angeles in 2026 has been scarred by destructive wildfires, battered by the slowdown in the entertainment industry and its urban core is still struggling to rebound from the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Complicating efforts to battle it is the fact that its epicentre lies in the east, a mineral-rich region that has been scarred by violence from various armed groups for more than three decades.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
He found broken trees littering the mountainside and hurled into the water, and vast swathes of scarred rock stripped of soil and vegetation.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
But the cry his grandfather gave—huge from such an old man—when he saw him, standing, soaking wet and scarred and smiling: that was worth hearing.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing scarred
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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