Example Sentences

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Beating former Premiership and European champions Saracens is an "iconic moment" for Cornish Pirates, according to joint head coach Alan Paver.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2021

"The only thing it was missing was 5,000 Cornishmen shouting their heads off," Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2021

Before Mark Paver, the Martyrs' player-coach, entered the seminary, he had a semiprofessional career in England's gritty lower leagues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2013

Paver wasn't sure she wanted to continue writing in an animal's voice for her second series, but, after swimming with dolphins in Florida and researching them extensively, she found the lure too strong.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012

In 1652, Captain Simon Willard and Captain Edward Johnson made their tour up the Merrimack Paver to Lake Winnipiseogee, and marked a stone near the Weirs as the northern boundary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various