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Example Sentences

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"In a five-day Test match, you should hunker down. Wafting outside 'sixth stump' areas has never been in the textbooks, and that is mainly the fault of the top order."

From BBC

California offers a textbook example of how to make life unaffordable.

From The Wall Street Journal

"He's not your textbook fighter that has come through an amateur system, where he has to put together the basics," he says.

From BBC

From the moment she could pick up a pen, she was doodling over everything possible - from school textbooks to spare scraps of paper.

From BBC

For almost twenty years, textbooks described CENP-E as a motor that pulled chromosomes to the metaphase plate.

From Science Daily