How to Use scaffold in a Sentence

scaffold

noun
  • The condemned man was led to the scaffold.
  • The brain places those pieces onto the scaffolds of event scripts.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The next step is to connect all the ideas in your scaffold to the bigger picture.
    — Cheyenne Kamran, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Averill [sic] and Kate were given a horse to ride to the scaffold.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Finally, prune shoots along each scaffold branch.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Aim to have one shoot about every 12 inches along a scaffold branch.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • These will become the tree's scaffold branches.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • The bell is cast, and an army of townspeople gather to raise it on a scaffold, for a test.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The painters stood atop massive scaffolds to give the arcade the right touch Kahn sought.
    — Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
  • These scaffold branches help support new growth and keep those large, heavy blooms upright.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
  • These scaffold branches help support new growth and keep those large, heavy blooms upright.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Day after day, the nuns were brought to a scaffold in the center of town, while crowds gathered to watch.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Scientists have to use scaffolds to make sure the organs grow into the right shapes.
    — Photograph Courtesy Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2017
  • But many others whose names have been lost to history also lost their lives on the scaffold.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The narration made a scaffold in the story.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Next to it, the blue scaffolds of an indoor crane resemble a launchpad gantry.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • The length of the scaffold branches determines the overall size of the tree.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The only natural question is whether the staff climb the scaffolds at night.
    — Katherine Bernard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • What are some places autistic people can turn to for help in constructing their scaffolds?
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
  • Nineteen white men later crammed under the scaffold to be photographed with his body.
    — Janine Latus, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Madsen has the skins, and soon they’ll be stretched over scaffolds in town, drying in the late-autumn winds.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Prune trees when young to create a strong scaffold and minimize upward growth.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
  • These pins are connected to rods outside the leg, forming a rigid scaffold.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The scaffold does more than replace missing tissue.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On Broadway and on tour, the Newsies danced with their papes on scaffolds.
    — chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The dogs of war were baying, bloody chaos was let loose, And high above the rabble rose a scaffold and a noose.
    — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And the scaffold, still erected, in the Tower Green.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • After eight weeks, most bone cells had attached to the bio-glass scaffold, and the plain glass showed little to no growth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • When applied to the tooth surface, the protein formed a crystal-like scaffold.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers found that, inside one centriole, there is a kind of scaffold that gets stronger over time.
    — Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2025

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