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Example Sentences

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Cignetti called a play—“One Mike”—that was about to change college football history.

From The Wall Street Journal

The New Year’s streak of unseasonably warm weather in Southern California is about to take a break.

From Los Angeles Times

Police suspected that the inflatable, which was moving down the canal to its mouth at the sea, was about to be used for picking up migrants, so they moved to arrest the men on board.

From BBC

"They take you to the airport and you dress well like you're about to travel. They give you a passport, give you fake travel papers," she explained.

From BBC

Lulled by the hypnotist’s voice, Lilian wanders through a technicolor fantasia before finding herself in the pit of a French orchestra during World War II, in a theater that’s about to be raided by the German militia.

From Salon