We found 24 examples of how to use scrooge in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 24 of 24.
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| 1. | Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. | |
| 2. | "Why did you get married?" said Scrooge. "Because I fell in love." "Because you fell in love!" growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. | |
| 3. | Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge. | |
| 4. | "What's today?" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him. "Eh?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder. "What's today, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge. "Today!" replied the boy. "Why, Christmas Day." | |
| 5. | Scrooge and Marley were partners for I don't know how many years. | |
| 6. | External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. | |
| 7. | "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!" | |
| 8. | Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? | |
| 9. | Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes. | |
| 10. | When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. | |
| 11. | "Who, and what are you?" Scrooge demanded. "I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." | |
| 12. | "What is the matter?" asked the Spirit. "Nothing," said Scrooge. "Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." | |
| 13. | The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count. | |
| 14. | Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes. | |
| 15. | They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last. | |
| 16. | "Ha, ha!" laughed Scrooge's nephew. "Ha, ha, ha!" | |
| 17. | If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance. | |
| 18. | Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? | |
| 19. | External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. | |
| 20. | "I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?" said Scrooge. | |
| 21. | At the ominous word "liberality", Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. | |
| 22. | "A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. | |
| 23. | Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. | |
| 24. | If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" |