Sentence examples for scoured out from inspiring English sources
All over the city, foundations are being scoured out by the quick-flowing tides.
Roth was extraordinary as a man scoured out by grief and left with only a single purpose to pursue.
High muddy banks rose above deep holes in the streams where flash floods had scoured out holes.
From 4 o'clock to sunset, I sat on a big boulder that was pockmarked with holes scoured out by swirling stones and high water over centuries, periodically drifting various dry flies over the chosen location.
The region's present landscape is the product less of earthquake action than of three to six episodes of intense glaciation the last of which occurred about 15,000 years ago that scoured out Puget Sound and deposited great quantities of sediment that are subject to erosion, landslides, weathering, and other nonglacial processes.
Indebtedness to commercial power depersonalises the people in this film: more even than dispensable workers, the replicants are not makers of the product, they are the product; otherwise Deckard is a man scoured out by being a functionary on behalf of what he himself names "the business".
This involves scouring out the insulation and bagging it for resale like cotton candy.
Flood water constantly filled it in, and when the levee finally gave way the engineers could not get enough current into the canal to scour out a new channel.
When they arrive in a flood, as they have during economic booms since the 19th-century gold rush, including the dotcom surge of the late 1990s and the current tech tsunami, they scour out what was there before.
Lots of them were trained to do coronary bypass operations, only for cardiologists and radiologists to invent angioplasty, whereby they can scour out fat-filled arteries without the need for surgery.
Revving up the drenched crowd before Mr. Bush's arrival today, Bill Cunningham, the host of a local radio talk show, asked, "Are we going to permit an eighth of an inch of rain to keep us from scouring out the White House from the filth and degradation of Clinton-Gore?" "No!" the audience thundered back.
