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Example Sentences
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This put him in conflict with Shaw, who had once overseen the hospital, and who sicced health inspectors on Clinton’s cafeterias.
From Los Angeles Times
Later, the whole world was watching as Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, sicced police dogs on peaceful protesters.
From New York Times
“If I went in down Bardstown Road in Louisville, I’d probably get somebody that was going to either yell, scream, sic their dog on me, I don’t know — try to run me over or something.”
From Washington Post
Echoing language he has used to attack prosecutors investigating him, he said he would sic the Justice Department on “Marxist prosecutors offices” if he was elected.
From Washington Post
The evidence was indisputable, like those grainy TV images from the 1950s and ’60s of police officers spraying water hoses and siccing dogs on civil rights activists.
From Washington Post
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