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Example Sentences

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He would go home and sketch chain designs for players he’d met, knowing nothing about the jewelry industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

"Football is nothing without the fans," the legendary late former Scotland World Cup manager Jock Stein once said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Poverty, she says of those years, was “a pair of vacant eyes, nothing in them anymore, no strength to hold hope.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Jokes about Twitch streamers getting paid to do nothing were funnier the first 1,000 times you saw them somewhere, and even then, they weren’t worth more than a passing snicker.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Now that we are Jillian and J. J.—and have nothing in common—time is dragging.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith