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dale

[dayl] / deɪl /


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Seconds after retreating, Garcia steps out, holding the stick upright along with plastic bags filled with recyclables, asking Silva in Spanish: “Porque me quieres pegar? Dale, dale, pega me?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

When I ask Sarah Close, who lives in a farmhouse in the dale, how fast the download speed is, she just laughs.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2021

Having gone uphill, they are heading down dale at velocity.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021

Every two years, the call goes out from hill and dale: “This is the most important election of our lifetimes,” politicians trumpet to the crowds.

From Time ● Nov. 4, 2014

Nothing else was to be seen; the dale all around was empty.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Read on for tips on where to find flowers, which wineries are on the up and how to stay satiated and well rested as you roam the region’s hills and dales.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

O’Connor leans heavily into that fusing of the inner and natural worlds: There’s lots of twirling about in “Emily,” often amid drenching rainstorms while cavorting on those aforementioned dales.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Thorstein went south by the dales all the way till he came to his estates.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

But the air was damp, somewhere—I said—and darted around the rocks, peering and looking and sniffing and going down into pockets and dales.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George


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