How do you use the word "scar" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "scar": The tragedy left a scar on my mind. Will I have a scar?

Scar Meaning

/skɑɹ/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

nounA permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.

Sentence Examples

The tragedy left a scar on my mind.

Will I have a scar?

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

mark scratch pit

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The deep cut on his arm left a permanent ____ that he would always remember the accident by.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The surgery left a faint ____ on her wrist that faded gradually over the years.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success." — 2011, O. P. Sharma, Be a Winner, →ISBN:

"Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface." — 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people, page 29:

"But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates." — 1965 June 4, Johnson, Lyndon B., Howard University Commencement Address:

"There is a real scar on the landscape, but it reminds me exactly of scenes I photographed from the construction of High Speed 1 in Kent and Essex, and of the Norton Bridge flyover in Staffordshire. Scars heal, and the replanting and rewilding that Penny had shown me at Cubbington display the early stages." — 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 44:

"Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow." — c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

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