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Example Sentences
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“Investors lapped up mining companies, housebuilders, packaging providers, tech names, and banks,” he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
As the sea lapped around him, he balanced himself on a rock and cast a fishing line into the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The country was rocked by the Watergate fallout, but its citizens also lapped up the gossip — like Rovere hoped to do with what little tidbits made it to Woodward and Bernstein’s book.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
The Americans are looking up in the medal standings at host nation Italy, which is on pace for its best-ever Olympics, and they have been lapped by the Norwegian gods of the Winter Games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Now he was coming to the end of the inlet, a high blank wrinkled mass of rock against which, narrowed to the width of a little creek, the last sea-waves lapped feebly.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
