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Example Sentences

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“You can’t really take a five-pound dumbbell into the ocean,” he says, “so we’d do that part of the workout on the sand, then do swimming drills in the ocean, plus treading water or maybe aqua jogging with fins, then going back onto the sand. Half and half.”

From Los Angeles Times

The parade begins on Orange Grove Boulevard, then turns east onto Colorado for the bulk of the trek before ending at Sierra Madre Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times

It unexpectedly held onto its outer layers for more than 50 days before releasing them, offering the clearest evidence yet for a delayed expulsion in a nova.

From Science Daily

In 1915, The Endurance became trapped in ice, and his crew abandoned ship, crossing onto floating ice, where they decided they were going to live until they could be saved.

From BBC

They were possibly stitched onto clothing or attached to a piece of jewellery.

From BBC