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How to use the word scrambled in a Sentence?

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It felt like extortion, i was scared, and I just scrambled and tried to get some money together to pay it off.

Jennifer Alegria

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We live in a four-family townhouse in Plaistow, and it shook our house so bad that we thought someone drove into our building. The kids all scrambled, saying ‘earthquake,’ before asking me what it was.

Amy Owen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A lot of hospitals have closed down other units, and scrambled staff to triage patients coming in for testing and for other purposes.

Alan Braynin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Turkey has not really gained all that much from this, as I said, but in the process has scrambled the entire northeast, undercut our efforts against ISIS and brought in the Russians and the Syrian regime forces in a way that is really tragic for everybody involved.

The US

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If they're maintaining separate business structures and infrastructure, it's much easier to have a divestiture in that circumstance than in where they're completely enmeshed and all the eggs are scrambled.

Joseph Simons

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I didn't play my best today, but I managed my game well, scrambled well( and) it added up to a good score at the end of the day.

American Patrick Reed

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else, we're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism.

Mark Thompson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You think you know what it means to be on TV, but you don’t know what the production company is going to do when they edit [ the show ], you don’t know where it is going to be broadcast or for how long. If you are the awkward kid on a TV show or the kid that messed up the scrambled eggs, that could follow you around for the rest of your life.

John Hotchkiss

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Everybody scrambled ... and the guy was just kind of at ease, just standing there, just shooting.

Keifer Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I hung in there, front nine, I was doing everything well except for my speed on the greens, but it was nice to make some putts on the back. World number two Jordan Spieth, the highest-ranked player in the field, recovered from a slow start to card a 68 while Tiger Woods scrambled on Tiger Woods back nine with three late birdies to salvage Tiger Woods round.

Brendon Todd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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