p

Example Sentences

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“It’s awful hard to ask the girl, ‘Will you go to the p- pr- pr- prom with me?’

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2022

The antiproton p- is u- u- d , for example.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Who would not give all else for two p- ennyworth only of beautiful soup!

From Songs From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll, Lewis

It was p- pretty f-f-foggy when we got to the wharf, and we s-saw it wouldn't be s-safe for F-Father and M-M-Mother and B-Betty and Alice and the b-b-baby to go sailing, anyhow.

From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Pearson, Edmund Lester

It was something like this: Man with p- Get- Br- We spelled it out slowly.

From The Man in Lower Ten by Rinehart, Mary Roberts