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[sent] / sɛnt /


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Chandler’s the type of actor who still appreciates being sent physical copies of scripts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Essex County Fire & Rescue Service was called to a warehouse on Stour Road in Harwich at about 03:36 BST and about 35 firefighters had been sent.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The back story: When Covid sent Yale students home in 2020, Chime and his co-founders decided to skip remote learning and build their company full time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The simple fact is that U.S. tariff invoices issued by the Treasury Department are sent to the U.S. businesses that import the foreign products.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

She did not run and still did not run and I thought she must be a medicine doe sent to me; a spirit doe come in a dream to tell me something.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Signore noi ci siamo sole, nessuno ci senti," remarked the Signora encouragingly.

From Humour of the North by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

I have seen him myself,' was his only comment; and to all questionings but one reply was vouchsafed: 'Deux fois je l'ai vu: mille fois je l'ai senti.'

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

By the immortel Chofe!" he would say, "dat letell ding sents me mad vid her big ice!

From Men's Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray

Pasch for his mark hath the Resurrection: Ayenst Hally-Thursday is pented Chraist's ascension: Thus in mayn own buke ay is a gude clerk; But gif the sents war gone, the cat had eat my mark.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

They say there goin to charge three sents for a letter pretty soon.

From Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie by G. William Breck

German" legend ran thus:— "Goot rost benuts ish incite, nein sents a quoort.

From Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

I guess the edittur was mad, wen he paid 50 sents charges, and found out it warnt no berthday present.

From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor




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