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How to use the word SCATTER in a Sentence?

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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

George Washington

added by Normando
1 year ago

Lemon, garlic, onions up the chicken, thyme, salt and pepper, all that, you scatter onions around the chicken, but you pack them in really tight into the tray. And then you roast them really high for about an hour and 20 minutes and they're done and they're perfect.

Ina Garten

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's almost like when you drop a jar of marbles, and they scatter and try and reconstitute in different places, what we see with that in the US is a movement towards old tech platforms and places where these accounts know that they're not going to be moderated.

Melanie Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you do not get the brilliance you expect from the sun during daytime, wait for the moonlight for your glitter to scatter.

Clifford Villanueva Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I saw a report from Missouri where I guess normally they would throw dry corn into each other's houses, it said,' the price of corn is too high for us to scatter the dry corn.' So the kids scattered the white fuzz that comes off of cattails around ponds.

Carolyn Orbann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the smoke haze, the most abundant particles are around onemicrometre in size, but these particles do not change the colour of the light we see, there are also smaller particles, around 0.05 micrometres or less, that dont make up a lot of the haze but are still somewhat more abundant during a haze period [than a normal non-haze period]... but this is enough to give an extra tendency to scatter red light more in the forward and backward directions than blue light - and that is why would you see more red than blue.

Google Translate

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

George Washington

added by Normando
5 years ago

It has to be prioritized and not scatter shot. ... It's all about seeking truth, where that takes us with the President and his performance remains to be seen.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
6 years ago

They fire artillery, there are often casualties and the civilians scatter into the jungle.

Hau Kha

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It was only in 2016 after poring over all of that detailed imagery that I eventually realized that the homesteads are not a scatter of villages but parts of one entity; a city, rather than a dispersion of homesteads.

Karim Sadr

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Most airports were not built to have people congregate at doors, and every time you stop people, you're interfering with what airports were supposed to be doing. You're trapping people in a line where if something did happen these people would not be able to scatter.

Angela Gittens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know dark matter exists around galaxies and we want to ask — if light from the galaxy can scatter off the dark matter, like a dust cloud, can you actually observe this light?

Jonathan Davis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.

Suzy Kassem

added by JP03
10 years ago

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

Saadi Shirazi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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