scoff - use in sentences

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: We happily scoff down mayonnaise, take a deep breath of sea air or light candles yet all of these things produce free nanoparticles.

Object

  • lot: This did not, however, put her off scoffing the lot.
  • cake: Good for strolling, shopping and scoffing cream cakes at the legendary Betty's Tea Shop.
  • load: Left unattended, a german guest who was hungry during the night came down and scoffed a load of the cake!
  • food: On the first day it rained, so we went to watch John's other favorite pastime - scoffing food in the local cafe.
  • banana: I decided that this was a good time to delve into my bum bag and scoff a banana.
  • breakfast: I had to sit and watch all these guys scoff huge greasy breakfasts washed down with gigantic mugs of sweet tea.

Preposition: at

  • notion: There are those who would scoff at the notion of research within the last century being true genealogy.
  • suggestion: The locals scoffed at the suggestion of a serious attack.
  • idea: For many years a number of clever people on both sides of the Atlantic have scoffed at the idea of a special relationship.
  • claim: Additionally, he scoffed at claims the fathers ' concern was about bias on the part of the FC and himself.
  • people: It made him laugh, and he scoffed at the people and called them cowards and old women.
  • thing: It was us scoffing at things, which was our way - but scoffing just keeps you ignored, as we discovered!

Modifying Another Word

  • all: Let the skeptics scoff all they want to, but you now know.
  • always: But your contributor always scoffs at the idea of utility.
  • n't: Do n't scoff at the back, it's true.
  • not: Let us not scoff at the idea of more than one eternal body, even a series of bodies.
  • just: It was us scoffing at things, which was our way - but scoffing just keeps you ignored, as we discovered!
  • still: He was a bit taken by surprise at the presentation, collecting his prize whilst still scoffing a chocolate bar.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: OK meal was soon scoffed down with a very palatable house red.

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