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Example Sentences
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Much of Venezuela’s oil industry is in disrepair, like this broken oil pipeline over Lake Maracaibo.
From Los Angeles Times
But that moment of maximal British-American political parallel was also, as it happens, the moment when the parallel began to break down.
From Salon
The difference with a spectacle held in February—and not the middle of European summer breaks—is that you can walk around the city without knowing the Olympics are here.
And from this we can infer that Zubimendi - Arsenal's "best player" - is most important when it comes to breaking down teams in the manner Arteta prefers, with measured, sustained possession.
From BBC
"And there, in that 15 minutes, the ACL was completely broken. That was my last game."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.