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Example Sentences
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I wouldn't go down that line because he has got a long, long way to go but his favourite position is just behind the striker and he can drift out to the left as well.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
“We ask them to hold the line in final negotiations.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Though rated investment-grade, its bonds trade more in line with the highest tier of speculative-grade debt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
An existing elephant endures over time, and space-time catalogues every moment of its existence as a four-dimensional world line — an object’s path through space and time throughout its existence.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Timidly Betsie and I stepped out of line and walked to the door of the big, dank-smelling room with its row on row of overhead spigots.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing line
Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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