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Example Sentences
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This time the stakes were higher, the filmmaker says, and being left to her own devices, as she had been on “The Lost Daughter,” wasn’t always the best solution.
From Los Angeles Times
The East Sussex couple are being held in Tehran's Evin prison, having been detained and sentenced on espionage charges, which they deny.
From BBC
Sunday was about the blue and the green but ended up being more about those in maroon and claret and amber.
From BBC
They sit in stony silence because they are watching their life’s work being systematically dismantled.
It’s tough to learn these things without being embedded in the environment—sitting in lectures, working with peers in multiple settings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
