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Example Sentences
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The island’s fragile and badly maintained power grid, a relic from Soviet times, has sustained two nationwide collapses on top of the daily rotating blackouts, which sometimes last for more than 20 hours at a time.
She can’t even nudge it enough to let light in, and with dawning horror, she realizes their giant oak tree must have fallen on top of the cellar.
From Literature
“There’s a truck on top of the cellar that we gotta move, but don’t worry. Damnedest thing—it landed right side up, not a scratch on it, keys in the ignition.”
From Literature
It seems like the rockfish on top of the load is laughing at me.
From Literature
All Maggie had to do was mix the dough, let it rest, mold it into plate-sized pieces, drop the dough in hot grease, watch it, turn it, watch it, drop it into an ice chest on top of newspaper to stay hot.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
