Example Sentences

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But we lived in a way unimaginable to 9-5 ers.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018

The United States soon got wind of Guevara’s presence and sent CIA agents and military advis ers to assist the regime of René Barrientos.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2017

Roosevelt Island is fantastic: right in the middle of the Potomac River and filled with woodpeck- ers, frogs, marshes, trails, and a seventeen-foot statue of Roosevelt himself, in shining bronze and larger than life.

From MSNBC • Sep. 9, 2014

Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has nothing to do with childhood or school or Gobstoppers or dead mice or Boaz- ers or summer holidays among the islands of Norway.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl