scram

Example Sentences

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If a cop tells you to scram, “You can say, ‘It is my understanding I have every right to record this.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2021

Ferraro walked the same tightrope that tripped up Hillary Clinton when she wondered if she should wheel around in that debate and tell the creeping Donald Trump to scram.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2020

Any thoughts on getting them to scram and protecting myself now and at future jobs down the line?

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2020

The future D.C. mayor was 16 years younger than Rutherford, who remembers her father, Joe, ordering him and his friends to scram when they played ball in a nearby field.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2015

Lucinda usually tells me to scram when she’s with one of her girlfriends.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez