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Example Sentences

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He spoke of his religiosity — his grandfather and great-grandfather were Baptist preachers — and talked at length about the optimism, a political rarity these days, that undergirds his vision for the country.

From Los Angeles Times

That is also transforming the image of an accessory that is "completely useless, very traditional, very masculine, and which requires great precision in terms of collar, knot and length", he said.

From Barron's

They added: "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

From BBC

I was three months premature; my lungs were underdeveloped; I weighed two pounds and barely spanned the length of the doctor’s hand.

From The Wall Street Journal

She ran into the house and came back with a two-foot length of thin, fraying rope.

From Literature