scaffold
Example Sentences
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Parents have since paid for a temporary scaffold bridge that allows people to traverse the condemned bridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
With this approach, they found that well before the genome fully activates -- a milestone known as Zygotic Genome Activation -- an elaborate 3D scaffold of DNA is already taking shape.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026
"It acts like a scaffold for nerves to grow along like a rose on a trellis," Dr Alex Woods explains, holding threads of silk worthy of Spider-man.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Sir Thomas More on the scaffold of Tower Hill comforted his executioner and was reported by a witness to have repositioned his beard on the block, joking it had committed no treason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
Haven’t we mounted the scaffold, singing, as if embarking on a picnic, haven’t we, boys?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Vocabulary lists containing scaffold
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