Sentence examples for scalp from inspiring English sources

But in his second over Mills claimed the prize scalp of the Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen, banging the ball in and striking him on the glove.

Only my hairless scalp reminded me of my condition.

Beyoncé's major triumph was not to release an album with no marketing, nor even to tap the "no marketing angle as a marketing angle" angle, but – to employ the favoured imagery of many Beyoncé fans – to snatch the wig of victory from the scalp of defeat.

What a relief!" Or how, upon overhearing a group of German children at the Pegasus bridge museum casting doubt on whether he could have been wearing the helmet with the bullethole in it and still lived to tell the tale, he took the helmet out of the display case, put it on and used a pen to match the hole to the scar on his scalp.

Amazon Instant Video's securing of the UK rights for epic romance Outlander is a decent scalp.

The reasoning behind no-pooing is that chemical detergents in shampoo strip hair of its natural oils, causing the scalp to pump out too much, creating lank hair and a greasy scalp.

The irony was excruciating for the man who rose to be John Howard's chief of staff after a ministerial scandal claimed the scalp of his predecessor Graeme Morris.

Ahead of one of the tightest elections in living memory, campaign teams across the country are dreaming of claiming a big political scalp in May's general election.

But what of, say, Burnley: will they go to St Mary's determined to take a Premier League scalp or will they rest players to concentrate on their promotion push?

Wolves also collected an away scalp with a win at Nottingham Forest to move into the top-six, and Brentford took three points back along the Thames from Craven Cottage with Stuart Dallas's double doing the damage.

But the scalp of the man who was Gordon Brown's closest adviser and who would have been chancellor in an Ed Miliband government was the biggest of the lot.