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Example Sentences
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"I feel like I've been punished for getting onto the housing ladder so early," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
When Amy Potter was growing up, she roamed free in rural Australia and jumped off a shed onto her trampoline until it had a hole in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It’s a projection onto the inanimate world of animism.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
It plays a major role in vision by bending incoming light so it can be focused onto the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
He charged forward, throwing himself onto the log, a graceless, diving motion just as the girl swept past.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
