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Example Sentences

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Maybe slip it onto your wife’s bedside table.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Encampment residents lug their bags onto a bus and head to their destinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

The model shows how electrically driven reactions in dust storms release chemicals into the atmosphere, where they are later redeposited onto the surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Reports describe last-minute efforts to hold onto the job and mounting frustration over stalled prosecutions and the handling of high-profile files tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Not knowing what else to do, I dumped the crackers out onto the cot.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom