scandalize

Example Sentences

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These events scandalize, yet “The Girl With the Needle” is most intriguing when it lingers in its disturbing fictions, which come to life with exceptional style.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024

Here’s a way to scandalize your guests at your holiday party: Serve them boxed wine.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

So when these powerful figures scandalize us, we lose our faith in our social world, or in our capacity to govern it.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2020

Her final chapter titled “Wild Child” is a panorama of bad deeds, as if to scandalize her children while also freeing them from fear of failure or harsh judgment.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2019

I think Jackson got it to scandalize me, since the red velvet cover was decidedly lurid, but it ended up being a very good story.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland