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'score' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'score' with 20 example sentences.


score noun

: a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)

: a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages

: a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest

: a set of twenty members

: grounds

: the facts about an actual situation

: an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)

: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

: the act of scoring in a game or sport

: a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse

score verb

: gain points in a game

: make small marks into the surface of

: make underscoring marks

: write a musical score for

: induce to have sex

: get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance

: assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation


  • An IQ score of 100 is considered average.
  • The crowd yelled when he scored a goal.
  • What was the final score?
  • "Who's winning?" "We're not keeping score."
  • Our team scored the first goal.
  • Scores of people gathered in front of the Royal Palace.
  • What do you think you'll score on tomorrow's test?
  • How many points have you scored?
  • She is not in the least worried about her test scores.
  • Who made the highest score?
  • The team's best striker scored twenty-three goals last season.
  • I still have a score to settle with him.
  • What was your final score?
  • In American football, a touchdown scores six points.
  • Scores of people died in the epidemic.
  • Dan scored second place in the race.
  • He scored 85 on the exam.
  • I want to score more goals.
  • I invited scores of people to my birthday party.
  • When she saw her test score, she burst into tears.
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