scotch

Example Sentences

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But a provincial official appeared to scotch such suggestions, telling AFP: "There are no security alerts of any kind".

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

To try to demonstrate the pair are not that close, and to scotch claims that his links to Lord Mandelson could ruin a future leadership pitch.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Other plots involve bandits, guns and an Indigenous tribe, the Cayuse, about to sign a treaty and a rebel faction out to scotch it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

She wears her power like a second skin and speaks a mid-Atlantic accent similar to the one Leigh used in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” only mellowed by casks of rare scotch and impatience with unrefined dullards.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

Red Pollard sipped his scotch and reminisced about Seabiscuit and quietly slipped out of history.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand