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Example Sentences

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“Equipped with a prosthesis simulating a glass eye over his pupil,” we are told, Mr. Day-Lewis “practiced hitting it with the tip of his knife without batting an eyelid.”

From The Wall Street Journal

And then I read it, and right off the bat, my character has the first three lines, all in caps, in a hospital room.

From Los Angeles Times

“You really had to go to bat to keep open a case that was more than two years old.”

From Salon

“I got to play shortstop the whole year, batted third. It helped me build a foundation. I started to grow, get stronger and become more comfortable.”

From Los Angeles Times

Just last week he’d ushered five souls into the Afterlife: two rabbits and an elk to Pleasure, an old songbird to Progress, and a fruit bat to Peace.

From Literature