How to Use scarred in a Sentence

scarred

adjective
  • Some roads might still be closed, and some areas will still look scarred.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2025
  • His fingers are nicked and scarred from pinches and scrapes.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Losada and Diego were left scarred for the rest of their lives.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The scarred and pitted thing became the locus of his art.
    — Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2025
  • His face was scarred by a shotgun pattern of blood-red scabs and ulcers.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the sweetest soul music is born from childhoods scarred with pain.
    — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
    — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The sun rose over Gaza, casting a pale, dusty light over rubble-scarred streets.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • However, these trees are often scarred for life.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The dam was visibly scarred by fighting in the months before the breach.
    — Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • Her fight for freedom leaves everyone scarred.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This lands him with a scarred head wound and drastic hearing impairment.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Thing just wants to protect its scarred and discolored hand-only body.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The scarred blue whale returned to the same bay for 15 years afterward.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • She was enchanted by the centuries-old wood plank floors, scarred and slightly sloped.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 5 May 2025
  • When the cornea is clouded or scarred, the pathway is blocked even if the retina itself is healthy.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Perry now has about 1,000 trees, some of which are badly scarred.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Yet his own films were marked by a keen sense of ambient tragedy and often scarred by the horrors of war.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Its mouth was agape — revealing a row of sharp teeth on its lower jaw — and blood could be seen on its scarred head.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
  • Keoghan is barely pictured on screen, but his macabre laughter and glimpses of his scarred face do all of the talking.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But the wall in the bedroom is scarred with bullet holes, spackled over but still visible.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • The Wonderettes are reunited and a little scarred by life since high school.
    — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The humble henna plant, famed for its vibrant dye, could hold the key to healing scarred livers.
    — New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Your vision is compromised from filler gone wrong; your legs are scarred after laser hair removal.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
  • To the right were trees scarred by one of the forest fires that have struck the area since, with forecasts of more intense blazes to come.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • As for the three other captives, Caldwell says at least two remain deeply scarred to this day.
    — Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Tidy dirt lots interrupt rows of palatial—if a little smoke-scarred—houses.
    — Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Brief more modern-day scenes suggest all the kids are one way or another scarred by their childhood for life.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • This has permanently scarred me.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The outcome of that situation left her scarred and unable to have children.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 21 July 2024

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