Democrats scoffed at that effort as a cosmetic makeover.

In 1982, Democrats scoffed at a surging stock market and thought a severe recession would last for a very long time.

Democrats scoffed at suggestions that they would roll back the Republican tax cuts for middle-class taxpayers.

Many Democrats scoff openly at the space proposal, suggesting that the president should spend the money on problems closer to home.

But some Democrats scoffed at the proposal, calling it inadequate.

The Democrats scoff at that claim and suggest that they simply learned from the opposition.

Democrats scoffed at that assertion, and said the investigation should be limited to five more weeks.

Democrats are scoffing, dismissing the proposals as a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.

Democrats scoffed at that argument, saying they had not raised the subject last week when a grazing bill was being considered because Western Democrats objected.

Some Democrats scoff at the Gingrichian inversion even as they recognize its power.