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Example Sentences

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Sent on 25 September 2001, it reads: "We envisage a programme overseas based around two major regional visits per year. Other visits overseas will be considered, depending on budget and other constraints."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Appeared in the October 6, 2025, print edition as 'National Guard Sent to Oregon'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

Sent to an animal shelter with a group of other Shiba Inu dogs after her breeder went out of business, she was adopted in 2008 by Ms. Sato, a kindergarten teacher.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

In historian Geoffrey Robertson’s book, “The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold,” the author recounted how a judge told the jury to reconsider their not-guilty verdict.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Sent for him to come there from way off.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston