Collocations for "scene"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "scene" in context.
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scene
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the last scene of the [play, movie, story]
- the [first, second, final, last] scene (of the play)
- the [story, main character, villain] is introduced in the [first] scene
- the [music, fashion, movie, international, party, drugs] scene
- (what's) [new, hot, trending] in the [music] scene
- the [social, cultural, political] scene
- a [wild, festive] scene
- the [crime, murder, accident, crash] scene
- the scene of the [crime]
- find [bodies, clues, fingerprints] at the [crime] scene
- was [questioned, interrogated, interviewed] at the scene of the crime
- arrived [at, on] the scene of the [accident, fire, robbery]
- was the [first, last] (to arrive) [at] the scene
- the [troops, soldiers, residents] faced a scene of [carnage, panic, death, destruction]
- [street, landscape, mountain] scenes
- [paint, draw, depict] street scenes
- the [child, patient, student, worker] was making a scene
- don't make a scene!
- scene changes [in, during] the play
'scene' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
about
- act
- action
- authority
- awe
- back
- bedroom
- beneath
- bliss
- burst
- can
- capture
- cartoon
- case
- change
- comb
- cop
- crime
- crowd
- cut
- disgusting
- dispatch
- disturb
- doom
- dramatic
- dust
- edge
- emotional
- enact
- end
- erase
- everyday
- fade
- familiar
- forward
- gaze
- graphic
- gruesome
- haul
- insane
- intense
- mass
- mayhem
- mummy
- myriad
- nasty
- paint
- pan
- pepper
- perfect