Example Sentences

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“Home tonight, hopefully,” the 25-year-old driver said about Dakar, an E.T.A. that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022

I really enjoyed “The Nutcracker”! I know that it is based on a story by E.T.A.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2019

The ballet was based on a story called ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ by the German writer E.T.A.

From Fox News • Dec. 18, 2018

Ratmansky, who trained at the Bolshoi and then continued his apprenticeship in the West, has scooped up myriad themes from E.T.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2015

At about the same time he read Gulliver's Travels, the tales of noble robbers written by Goethe's brother-in-law, Vulpius, the wildly fantastic stories of E.T.A.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno