families
Example Sentences
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Daytime activities included volunteering at a soup kitchen, handing out food to families in Parque Maceo and dropping off N95 masks and meds at the towering Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Young families have always flocked to Hartford’s suburbs for more land and good schools, but competing for a house was hardly the norm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Still, hundreds of families sat out under mild, cloudy skies, picnicking amid sweeping views of the snow-capped Alborz mountains -- a postcard scene at odds with a city under regular attack.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
The BBC has discovered Bush also kept more than 1,000 items, including love letters, baby clothes and treasured possessions belonging to the dead and their families.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
No, thirty-six families, Jonah thought, with a sudden lump in his throat.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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