How to Use Scotch in a Sentence

Scotch

1 of 2 noun
  • For me, one of the most compelling stories is told by Scotch whisky casks.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • While fine art and wine share attributes like scarcity and craft, Scotch whisky stands apart.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Baja Taqueria seemed like an odd place to serve a Scotch-style ale.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The move comes as Scotch faces a shifting global market.
    — Andy Vasoyan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Markets are shifting, and Scotch whisky is rising with them.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Goldberger wanted a Scotch-on-the-rocks.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Beef fat adds ricness to the briney seafood, and a Scotch bonnet chile ties it all together.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Laphroig 10 Single Malt Scotch 1 oz.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Scotch whisky can feel overwhelming for beginners.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Pair your cigar with smoky Scotch or a Negroni, and suddenly the evening stretches.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Scotch whiskey fans who love Ardbeg really love Ardbeg.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The brine of bottarga and spice of Scotch bonnet cut through the richness to balance out this dip that is a real treat to kick off your meal.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That’s the idea, anyway—but pairing a legacy Scotch brand with a pop artist isn’t exactly intuitive.
    — Andy Vasoyan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • While one of its whiskies is booming, its most important category, Scotch, is in decline.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This single malt whiskey was awarded 98 points and won the Scotch whisky trophy for single malts over 20 years of age.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Balmoral bar is akin to a whisky library, with more than 400 bottles of Scotch in a wall-to-wall display.
    — Jake Emen, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The goat with spicy scallop creole and the pepper shrimp with sorrel, Scotch bonnet chile, and thyme were two dishes that really stood out.
    — Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Dec. 2025
  • That’s important because Canadian whisky plays by a different set of rules than Scotch or bourbon.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • India is expected to become Scotch’s largest market by 2027.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Despite his Scottish lineage, Gowrie isn’t angling to replicate single malt Scotch.
    — John Kell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Our group included a mix of Scotch connoisseurs and novices—those willing to learn and those more interested in the train’s other trappings.
    — Jake Emen, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2025
  • If with, Blended Whiskey, Scotch, or Blended Japanese Whisky can be used.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Volume-wise, Irish whisky does around half the volume of Scotch whisky and a little more than half of the revenue generated by Scotch whisky.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The Burns, which opened in 2011, has more than 600 bottles of whiskey, mostly single-malt Scotch, on the shelves.
    — Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Each table also has a plate of pickled shallots with Scotch bonnet peppers, inspired by another of their grandmother’s recipes.
    — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This 11-year-old single malt Scotch is both a tribute to the rugged island distillery and a nod to Offerman’s love for the Caribbean.
    — Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Recent years have shown that even established global industries like Scotch whisky are not immune to the broader forces shaping international commerce.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Some good candidates include creeping thyme, Irish or Scotch moss, white clover, creeping veronica, baby’s tears (Soleirolia soleirolii), and chamomile.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The evening closed with curried rice accented by Scotch bonnet and crispy onions, silky parsnip mash enriched with garlic butter and dill, and broccolini topped with golden garlic breadcrumbs and a squeeze of lemon.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
  • While traditional Scotch is struggling, the booming success of Crown Royal reveals a new, accessible path to growth.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

scotch

2 of 2 verb
  • Up close, the gold paint was scotched and chipping.
    — Drew Rollins, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • This idea was scotched in April, but revived two months later.
    — Charlotte Observer, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Folk legend Cat Stevens scotched a book tour after visa problems.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Yet Reagan had faith in them, insisted on them, and scotched the deal with Gorbachev over them.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • There are not as many ultra-aged Irish whiskeys as there scotch whiskies in the world, but there are certainly some worth seeking out.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Back then, business was fueled by late nights, three-martini lunches (scotch for me) and a kind of pride in running on empty.
    — Ron Rudzin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The scheme was scotched during Boris Johnson’s time as London mayor.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • For beginners the classic Speyside style is part of an introduction to scotch.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Arthur and Michael had made plans to escape Dublin for London, but Arthur’s father’s will has scotched those plans.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • However, an oxygen-tank explosion 56 hours after launch scotched those plans and put the mission into survival mode.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The three-minute segment came on a chilly late-winter’s eve, scotching any notion that the forecast Doctor Love shouted out loud would be hotter than hell.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The show, which was hyped as the band’s final festival gig in Sweden, was scotched after Lyxzén was hospitalized and told to rest by doctors.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 June 2024
  • And what could scotch the transaction is a bigger drop in Tesla’s share price that might push Musk to exit, perhaps bowing to pressure from big shareholders.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Sure, 21 years might not sound that old to scotch whisky drinkers, but in bourbon that’s practically ancient, although certainly not unprecedented.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 June 2026
  • At times, the episodes become a little repetitive as Carter shows up somewhere after the arrival of the gang members to scotch their plans in increasingly ingenious ways.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • That’s a style that’s relegated mostly to scotch whisky (although, despite what many people believe, only a small proportion of scotch is actually smoky).
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2026
  • These days, there is so much whiskey to choose from, with countless bottles in all categories ranging from bourbon to scotch to American single malt to Japanese blends.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Talk of the couple installing an air conditioner — and thus, like the guy who threw out the induction oven last week, invalidating the carbon-neutral nature of the house — scotches the deal.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
  • He was aided by the equally charming David Cameron, now embroiled in a lobbying scandal that will scotch any hope of restoring a reputation ruined by Brexit.
    — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The governor has deemed a Bears stadium in Arlington Heights a top priority, and a fellow Democrat is trying to scotch it.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • The claims of progress, inclusion, and financial stability – the last of which Ben Sulayem has frequently highlighted – were all scotched by Mayer.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 5 July 2025
  • With West Virginia scotched, the Democratic Senate map is undeniably constricting.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For our first introduction to scotch Sebastian (Seb) Drignes, co-founder of independent bottler Wu Dram Clan has taken us to the heart of Speyside.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Scheduled to go on a family trip to Portugal two days after the gig, Jack said that outing was scotched when his kids got a nasty stomach bug, which gave them time to hang out for a bit at the family home in England during what would turn out to be his dad’s final weeks.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But German and European officials scotched that possibility even while accepting that the European Union could take a more significant role in peace efforts after being largely sidelined by Washington over the past year.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • Producers then planned to move the show into a vacant 42nd Street building that once housed New York’s Playboy Club, but after extensive renovations that turned the venue into a working Nashville-style honky-tonk bar, the run was scotched days before previews were to begin last March.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Other scotched shows, for now, include stops at the Boch Centre Wang Theatre in Boston, as well as stops in Toronto, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025

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