7 sentences with “scores”

While we ate, he would pick up the newspaper and read aloud the Major League Baseball scores.

Laura prefers her truck, where, in addition to the piano, she carries a bed, an icebox, several scores piled on the floor and a clothesline.

New England especially benefited from both the salutary neglect and the vibrant maritime culture made possible by the scores of trading vessels built in the northern colonies.

As a result, many saw a new war as an opportunity to settle scores, to prove once and for all that they were citizens of a great power, and to shame their opponents into conceding defeat.

Vivaldi's works were used as a musical background - very softly - while they took a complicated intelligence test. The scores obtained were - on a scale of 1 to 10 - no lower than 8 points.

Some, however, saw the conclusion of the First World War as deeply unsatisfactory and, in a sense, incomplete: there were still scores to settle. It was out of this sense of dissatisfaction and a yearning for continued violence that the most destructive political philosophy of the 20th century emerged: fascism.

During his early years as a culinary detective, he had the wrong idea of his audience. "I thought I was writing for amateurs," he says, "because I assumed that professional cooks already knew all this. But, as scores of thank-you letters attest, many chefs simply trusted what he had taught them. With his help, they finally distinguished what works from what doesn't in the kitchen, and they understood why.