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scene Noun

— A scene is a place where something happened. Police found a gun near the crime scene. Reporters arrived at the scene of the shooting shortly after 2:00. — A scene is one part of a movie or play where the action happens at one time in one place. Who could forget the amazing opening scene of Star Wars? The movie's sex scene was so bad that half of it was cut. His role was so small he appeared in only one scene in act five. The Mad Scene in "Lucia di Lammermoor" is a great moment in opera. — A scene is the public activities of a group of people with a common interest, such as music, politics, etc. For more than a decade, she dominated the fashion scene. Many of those Lakers fans are celebrities from L.A's movie and music scenes. Colin Farrell burst on to the scene as one of the baddest boys since Jack Nicholson. — If something happens behind the scenes, it happens out of sight, in secret. It's hard to know what went on behind the scenes. — A scene is a view of a place, especially in art. The photo was a street scene out of New York. — A scene is a loud, public argument or demonstration.

scene

— noun the place where some action occurs the police returned to the scene of the crime — noun an incident (real or imaginary) their parting was a sad scene — noun (= view) the visual percept of a region the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views — noun a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film — noun a subdivision of an act of a play the first act has three scenes — noun (= picture) a situation treated as an observable object the political picture is favorable the religious scene in England has changed in the last century — noun (= view) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept he painted scenes from everyday life figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment — noun (= fit, tantrum) a display of bad temper he had a fit she threw a tantrum he made a scene — noun (= setting) the context and environment in which something is set the perfect setting for a ghost story — noun (= scenery) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale they worked all night painting the scenery

Synonyms scene synonyms

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Topics scene topics

What do people use scene to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive

Examples scene examples

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Simple sentences

It was like a scene out of a movie.

A big crowd gathered at the scene of the fire.

The scene from the hotel was very beautiful.

Ben acted out the scene of the waitress spilling soup in his lap.

There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.

The pilot described the scene in detail.

I couldn't bear to see such a scene.

That was a fearful scene.

Her eyes were filled with tears when she pictured the sad scene to herself.

I want to see the scene in slow motion.

My hair stood on end with horror when I saw the scene.

The scene was burned into my memory.

The scene made my stomach turn.

The scene was shown in slow motion.

What I remember most about that movie is the last scene.

Twenty police have arrived on the scene.

A detective arrived upon the scene of the crime.

The police got to the scene of the accident.

Never have I seen such a beautiful scene.

Just picture to yourself the horror with which I saw the scene.

We waited at the scene of the accident till the police came.

I was watching the scene holding my breath.

I went to the scene of the crime.

Movie subtitles

If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?

Besides, I-I-I can't handle that whole French scene without you.

I came to pay my respects to one of our great poets and ended up in a crime scene.

First on the scene?

I leave a meat pie at the scene of a crime and get someone else to be on the float.

You certainly tied Jared to the scene, if you could make it look like he did it and he was dead, well.

The Constable took them at the scene.

Well, there's no record of them being at the scene.

It was a harrowing scene as families took cover from several hundred rounds of ammunition Sunday evening.

Now, Miss Newsome and Roger are new to the scene, sir, but they've already picked up a couple of ribbons and are considered a real threat by the other owners.

I really had an appointment with Lia Leid at the scene of the crime.

Come, I'll show you where I saw him. in the scene-dock of the third cellar.

The world is like that. There's no point in making a scene.

You were less shy early on the scene.

The state highway is riddled with signs of an attack, and after we had followed those signs, we came upon this scene of devastation, which could be mistaken for a battlefield.

That's ridiculous! -I get it now! You arranged for her to make that scene during our act.

I'll present you with the scene right now.

I remember doing a court scene in a play in St. Amand back in 1876.

Would you take the Inspector and his men to the scene of the crime.

Hamlet, act III, scene 1.

Quite a good scene, isn't it?

If we could only get a great scene, a tremendously emotional scene.

You just staged a scene that'd play like a million.

I know, but we've got a big scene to do here.

The scene where Scott revealed to his mom that he is a werewolf, I think she was, you know, sad, scared, freaked out, confused. There was so many emotions.

The scene in the hospital wasn't in the original script.

That scene was added, and I think that scene is so important to understand Allison's mind-set moving forward, because you see her as this, you know, this sort of sweet, naive girl, and then something massive happens. And then it's, you know.

Magistrate, we were just. You're going to pretend you didn't do that? If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?

Starting the scene.

An intimate family scene.

Felix's sister, Ernestine, happened to come upon this scene.

That was the last scene of him in Racine.

News and current affairs

Alerted by a telephone call, a policeman arrived smartly on the scene.

This scene remains shocking, but, like most science fiction, it has aged.

By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.

Others, such as Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev (popular with Western media when he first came on the scene) plainly has not.

He certainly has an authoritative personality and without doubt is more active on the international scene than some of his predecessors.

Take this example: if you return to the scene of a recent accident, you are likely to have a physical reaction that reflects activation of memories stored in the amygdala.

In Cuba, Fidel Castro's eventual passing from the scene represents an immense challenge.

Imagine the scene: Bucharest, le petit Paris, a city of three million people with wide boulevards and grand bourgeois villas, stands now a city half in ruins.

UN cars were surrounded by 200 Iraqi soldiers and a mob, ordered out to the scene by Iraqi officials.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair have lost the popularity they enjoyed before the Iraq war, and Blair, together with French President Jacques Chirac, will soon leave the political scene.

In Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a famous work that he published and to which he made three major contributions, he set the scene for what would become the greatest revolution in economic theory of the last 50 years.

In short, the global economic crisis has destabilized the ideological divides that have long defined the European political scene and has created new dividing lines.

We see this when new technologies arrive on the scene.

This utterly normal scene of a Prime Minister winning Parliamentary support is actually extraordinary in the context of Russia and Ukraine.

But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.

Within months, Islamist parties shaped by the Brotherhood's ideology had replaced secular dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and seemed poised to take over Yemen and Syria, largely because they were the only well-organized political movements on the scene.

As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.

In one scene, we see prostitutes in a nightclub titillating overseas Chinese businessmen by parading up and down in sexy People's Liberation Army uniforms.

The Franco-British agreement does, however, imply progress toward joint European military action, both in Europe and on the international scene, which will encourage the US.

The problem for Ban is his diffident manner, which stands in stark contrast with that of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, a larger than life secretary-general who dominated the scene through his flair, eloquence, and star power.

With the US-Russian agreement, signed in Geneva on September 14, to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control, Russia has returned to the global scene - and not only because of its nuisance value.

But it also demonstrates the robust assertion of national interest by new players on the global scene.

Chinese officials had clearly decided that these diaspora darlings of the international art scene should be now claimed as China's own.

American multinational companies and other foreign firms are an important part of the economic scene.

It was an important moment in China's evolution from a defensive to an offensive player on the international scene.

But the disease's sudden appearance on the global scene serves as a stark reminder of what can happen if we do not remain vigilant.

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