Sentence examples for scoffing from high-quality English sources.

• Scoffing devil!

• Scoffing up stewgravy with sopping sippets of bread.

• I amused myself scoffing pastries and staring at the view.

• Others mock their invaders, scoffing at their incompetence.

• He makes a scoffing face before I’ve even finished the question.

• Fat grey birds picking their way across the lawn, scoffing acorns.

• They tutted and chuckled when the otters were accused of scoffing $60,000 of designer carp.

• Mitigate jealousy by scoffing at unoriginal caption in front of Hindu temple: “Just bought a new home!”

Use scoffing in a sentence.

• There’s the odd duff lyric too, and though a couple of tracks here are clearly influenced by ’90s techno, they’ll probably get genre purists scoffing.

• Scoffing at the idea that Trump’s behavior was not impeachable, showing that it obviously was, Romney ended all ambiguity and spoke for the truth, and to history.

• After the first scoffing murmurs of recognition—the opening scenes of the film show a cold-looking church with a few parishioners in overcoats—we all settled down.

• Now, more than likely, he spends most nights scoffing the bespoke “Jeremy Dodgers” he makes himself by filling discs of shortbread with dollops of his homemade jam.

• After publicly scoffing at China's banking rules, officials summoned Ma to a regulatory meeting and introduced new micro-lending rules that disqualified Ant for a dual listing.

• IN THE LONG-FORGOTTEN days of Cool Britannia, Downing Street was packed with left-leaning intellectuals scoffing prime ministerial canapés as Tony Blair sought to dominate not just the country’s politics but also its culture.

• He recalls a Russian official, just before the financial crisis in 2009, scoffing at China’s supposed modernity, calling it a Potemkin village whose big GDP reflected “millions of poor people who will work for a bowl of rice”.

• “Having talking time when sitting down to lunch and eating one of the many delicious hospital meals (who'd have thought) was so much nicer than scoffing lunch quickly while hunched over my desk or rushing to a meeting,” she said.

scoffing sentence examples

• Fortune writes that responsibility for the Redstones' drama falls squarely with Sumner, who "stubbornly refused to put his house in order — scoffing at succession plans, appointing pliant boards, and running his $40 billion enterprise like a family grocery store."

• Among those answering the questions, Game of Thrones star Iain Glen reveals how he deals with noisy eaters and Andi Oliver, cook and great British menu judge, creates a bespoke 21st century cinema snack with a delicious, but hefty calorie tariff, aimed at silent scoffing.

• If December is the month for eating chocolate before 9am, drinking one too many cups of mulled wine every night and scoffing a mince pie every hour, January is the time when many of us feel like we want to nourish our bodies with foods that have slightly higher nutritional value.

• But unless you own a pasta machine – correction, unless you own and use a pasta machine, rather than leave it in the back of a cupboard like a small-scale instrument of torture that enjoys intimidating your other kitchen gadgets – then what you’re scoffing in front of ‘Gogglebox’ is a world away from what you’ll find at Padella, a sleek pasta bar from the duo behind Islington’s Trullo just a stone's throw from Borough Market.