Collocations for "scores"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "scores" in context.
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score
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- the [final, half-time] score
- a [3] -point score
- [check, request, improve] your credit score
- the [test, exam, average] score
- the average [test] score was [75]
- [two] scores [ahead, behind]
- the [home, away, visiting] team leveled the score
- the score stood at [1-1-, 3-0]
- the score is [1-1]
- the score at [half-time, the end of the first quarter]
- the score was [level, tied] (at half-time)
- a score of two [goals, points]
- need [two] scores to [tie, win]
- the bowler [got, achieved, bowled] a perfect score
- a musical score
- a [movie, film, TV, program] score
- [composed, wrote] the [movie] score
- the [ex-worker, officer, boss] had a score to settle (with)
- the [products, items, boxes] are sold by the score
- four score and seven years
- a big score of [cocaine, drugs, weapons]
- scores of [people, well-wishers, victims]
- what's the score on [Saturday's plans, the situation]?
- score a [point, basket, goal, hit]
- [failed, had many chances] to score
- scored [well, in the top 10, 50 points, highest]
- scored [a date, her number]
- score [an interview, a job, a position]
- informal: score (some) [drugs, crack, heroin]
- score up the [results, votes]
- score [an apple, the meat, the fish]
'scores' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):