Example Sentences

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With her latest book, she took 10 years of her diaries and alphabetized them by the first letter of the first word of each sentence, then cut the book down into the volume published.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

A local mortuary working with the county took possession of the other four bodies and the cremated remains and has since sorted and alphabetized the cremated remains.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Her spices were alphabetized, her cutlery all had to face the same direction in the drawer and her chocolate chip cookies were somehow all identical.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2022

Each shelf was completely full of titles, which were perfectly alphabetized and separated by genre.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

I ran back over to the Atari 2600 and searched through the giant rack of alphabetized game cartridges beside it until I found the one I was looking for: Adventure.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline