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Example Sentences

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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

Both the apartments and offices are in the shadow of MIT, one of America’s universities thinking harder about how to support entrepreneurship on campus–and hold onto its students.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Scrum-half Jeremy Fernandez took the ball from a scrum and broke down the blind side before putting a perfectly weighted kick behind the Saints defence for winger Ambadiang to race onto and score.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Tumbling mats had been spread out to cover part of the floor and I collapsed onto one of them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom