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Example Sentences
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These were not the large timber wolves but the smaller northern brush wolves, perhaps weighing forty or fifty pounds each, about as large as most of my team.
From Literature
It brought floating ice down from the Bering Sea, and the polar ice pounded against the ice along the shore.
From Literature
Glass removed violins from the orchestra to achieve a dark, primordial orchestral sound along with pounding percussion.
From Los Angeles Times
First launched a decade ago, it can fly at 1,220 miles an hour over a distance of nearly 1,400 miles without refueling and carry 4,000 pounds of guided bombs.
Tomahawk missiles being fired from U.S. ships have a warhead of 1,000 pounds.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
