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Example Sentences
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In our encyclopedia, I researched the most dangerous and deadly things in the universe, and I brought them to our valley.
From Literature
Bat felt like looking through his animal encyclopedia, which he often did after school, so he pulled it down from the bookshelf and dropped comfortably onto his beanbag.
From Literature
To say that “On the Altar” functions more like an encyclopedia than a monograph may sound like criticism.
Boomer Malone picked the James brothers, but then he couldn’t find them in the children’s encyclopedia.
From Literature
He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
