Example Sentences

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There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship.

From Time Magazine Archive

To his horror the fire would not go out; the bowl burst and sent flaming mao-tai across the table top.

From Time Magazine Archive