Example Sentences

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You know Dasher and DancerAnd Prancer and VixenComet and CupidAnd Donner and Blitzen,But do you recallthe most famous reindeer of all?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2020

Seasonal spins on the meme include “An elf may sit on a shelf but Epstein didn’t kill himself” and “Dasher & Dancer & Prancer & Epstein & Didn’t & Kill Himself & Donner & Blitzen.”

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2019

After finding a reindeer to replace the injured Prancer, Santa’s stableman finds himself falling in love with the animal’s owner.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019

But now she’s back, living with her standard poodles, Pepper and Prancer, in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2019

I had had my eye on one horse in particular, Prancer, the one I had dreamed about during all those months as I saved up the five pennies I needed to ride him.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals