Example Sentences

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Typifying the heated competition at the spot, Burns was one of the day’s other highlight players with back-to-back pass breakups in the end zone on passes intended for Lockett and DK Metcalf.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

Typifying the day’s feel-good nature, Carroll and Schneider fondly recalled Metcalf’s draft day and Seattle’s spur-of-the-moment trade with the Patriots to move up 13 spots to pick him.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022

Typifying this long-running lopsided matchup, almost all the could-go-either-way plays went to the Yankees, leaving the Twins largely shaking their heads at all their near misses.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2019

Typifying the government-led settlement of the Amazon, this process reached its apex under the 1964-1985 civilian-military dictatorship, when megaprojects like the Transamazon Highway were launched.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2018

Typifying not only the aims, but also the methods, of the British people, he never seems to distrust his own counsels whencesoever they spring nor to lack the courage to change them in a twinkling.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph