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Example Sentences

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On a recent weekday morning as Prebble finished up her check on the gorilla’s 26,000-square-foot enclosure and the zoo opened for business, children swarmed the barrier to catch a glimpse of the newborn gorilla clinging to his mother’s chest.

From Los Angeles Times

Maxwell May, who has been coming back to the street once or twice weekly to check on things, said he and his wife, Lauren Ward, will “flip the kitchen and dining room around” and add a bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times

Calvin turned on East Las Flores Drive, threading under the canopy of crape myrtles, pines and deodar cedars, and pulled up to his Midcentury ranch home and ran next door to check on his mom.

From Los Angeles Times

I’d check on the progress and get back to her, and she’d check back again when little had changed.

From Los Angeles Times

If he’d been fully aware of the movie’s daunting history, he might have just kept his heat check on ice.

From The Wall Street Journal