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Example Sentences
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It’s right there, the opening sentence of the second paragraph in the Fiscal Year 2027 Topline document just posted on the White House website.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
The tone of the marketing campaign bid request itself echoes that message, with its introductory paragraph pulled directly from Newsom’s State of the State speech in January.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
There are dull stretches in Tennyson’s life, but there is hardly a dull paragraph in this richly detailed book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Within a paragraph, Alito then suggested that Scalia would have been “appalled” by the ugliness, the coarseness of the discourse.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
The words just flowed—paragraph after paragraph about building the mailbox together from the DIY kit Mom gave us and how assembling it was supposed to be “foolproof” but Jonah and I kept messing it up.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.