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How to use scalped in a sentence

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Last spring, fans scalped tickets at Boston-New York spring training games!
Where almost all the bodies of the Cavalry soldiers had been scalped the bodies of Keogh and Custer were not harmed apart from their battle wounds.
Tickets are being scalped as if it were a playoff or even the World Series.
Arriving at the site of the ambush, he interred the scalped, unburied bodies of the French, and then carried on with his pursuit.
In Tokyo the tickets are given away by lottery and then scalped at a stonking premium.
Not surprising then that she'll take the most: she's stabbed, chained, tortured, scalped and finished off with an axe.
Historians Hippocrates and Herodotus thought that the Amazons had to fight until they had scalped three enemies before they were permitted to mate.
When extrusions of the highest quality are required, as in strong alloy aircraft parts, extrusion billets may be scalped before shipment to remove surface liquation.
A third lion went for his ribs, and a fourth one nearly scalped Massarti.
At Dresdner Bank, the tax-collectors scalped the bank's leadership: bad publicity created by their raid was the main reason for a messy boardroom coup in December last year.
This results in the turf being mowed too closely or scalped.
With the exception of six taken alive, the entire band of Iroquois was tomahawked and scalped, and their bodies were left on the reddened sand, to bear ghastly testimony to the vindictiveness of Indian revenge.
When wounded enemies were scalped, they had little chance of survival.
A quick death was a blessing, compared with the slow agony of those who were scalped, or worse still, roasted over low fires in an orgy of torture.
It is easy to see now why Norwich were so keen to headhunt the man who regularly scalped Scotland's top sides after guiding Hamilton to the top-flight last season.
Clint looked like he had been scalped by a Red Indian who'd smoked too much peace pipe.
Feeble and discouraged, the unfortunate men attempted no resistance, but fled back to the islet, leaving on the ground nine of their party to be scalped by the avengers.
As a result, many buildings scalped of their cornices in the mid-20th century have been recrowned in the last decade.
An anticline that has been more deeply eroded in the center is called a breached or scalped anticline.
Some members of the tribe were scalped by the attacking warriors.
Examples from Classical Literature
All had been scalped, and the bodies were mutilated with gashes of the tomahawks.
We heard afterwards that Holley was scalped and his body filled with arrows by the red devils.
He was then scalped and permitted to remain in that situation for several hours.
The Indian, leaping to his side, had scalped him before Rodney realized what had happened.
An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
So elated were the English, one soldier dashed from a sally port and scalped a dying Indian in full view of both sides.
Jerking his war bonnet off, I scientifically scalped him in about five seconds.
It is a terrible operation to be scalped, and few survive it.
They were at a loss to know whether he had been scalped in battle, or enjoyed a natural immunity from that belligerent infliction.
He scalped thorp and carred off the whole upper part of his skull with it.
The bodies of the soldiers were horribly mutilated and scalped.
For the air rang with the shrieks of Minnie, who was being scalped with a teaspoon.
Granville had been dragged behind some bushes to be scalped.
The orderly who had charge of the medicine chest was also scalped.
One of them had been knocked down and scalped, but was not killed.
But a boy who was scalped by them was cured, and escaped with life.
Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming.
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