How to Use scandalize in a Sentence

scandalize

verb
  • She was scandalized by her son's behavior.
  • Saddened, for sure, and no doubt even scandalized — but not shocked.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • Or are those who end up scandalized at fault for taking the obvious bait in the first place?
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The image scandalized city boosters at the time and the mural was white washed.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Long before there were jockstraps, codpieces scandalized the world in both art and life.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
  • From that moment, his short, chaotic reign would scandalize Rome.
    — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • As with a provocative runway show, some people were scandalized.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • This is not the first time the nation has been scandalized by police behavior of this nature.
    — Kia Makarechi, The Hive, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The artist is always one step ahead—and has a unique power to scandalize each generation anew.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In the last century the whole world was scandalized about what the Nazis did to purify the race.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race.
    — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
  • Even at the larval stage of his career, Cronenberg knew how to make our flesh crawl and to scandalize the scolds.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But even my frugal mother might have been scandalized by this particular chair.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Trump’s willingness to scandalize the garden party was proof of his willingness to take on this task.
    — vanityfair.com, 6 July 2017
  • The story flashes back to the birth of Elphaba, whose green skin shocks and scandalizes her parents.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Such talk likely would have scandalized Mugabe, who was openly disdainful of the drug.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
  • Their kissing and intimate comments scandalized the other teams and the daffy host (Schumer).
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2018
  • Had my own middle graders come in from the other room, they would have been alternately horrified, scandalized, and bored.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Think back to the then-scandalizing ads for Thinx period-proof underwear.
    — Ciara Phelan, Allure, 22 Apr. 2019
  • But remember when people were scandalized over teenage Spears moaning about leaving behind her name and age?
    — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • At four years old, Bowen scandalized them by doing a striptease to Céline Dion in the living room.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Rather than cheer Green’s boldness, much of the British establishment was scandalized.
    — Suzi Ring, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • This scandalizes the loyal parishioners, most of all Martha, who wastes no time texting the boss and putting the Monsignor on the warpath.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Against all propriety and etiquette, Jeanne moves to Versailles, where her arrival scandalizes the court.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • The Gospels are full of Jesus treating women in a way that would have scandalized his contemporaries.
    — John Blake, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • An accomplished classical violinist and wool-skirt woman of the old school, she was scandalized.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Miss Martha is initially scandalized by the Yankee’s presence.
    — Justin Chang, star-telegram.com, 28 June 2017
  • This call to arms scandalized many establishment conservatives, some of whom provided a check on Trump in his first term.
    — Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Sally, scandalized, turns him down, and proposes the consolation prize of friendship.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • As Alexandra Plakias has noted, philosophical about-faces should not scandalize us; they should be honored.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025

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