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Example Sentences
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They tend to multiply in the lower respiratory tract, and in their usual hosts, such as ducks and seagulls, they often infect the gut.
From Science Daily
This produced sturdy hydrogel microspheres that travel through the digestive tract and can be removed from stool with a magnet.
From Science Daily
For the first two decades of the 21st century, not even a once-in-a-millennium drought could deter real estate developers from building vast suburban tracts on the wild edges of Western U.S. cities.
From Salon
While most animal species fall into the “two types of gametes produced by two versions of the reproductive tract” model, many don’t.
From Scientific American
And, most of all, it doesn’t consider that many people believe the monarchy has no right to profit from vast tracts of land and the seabed just because of ancient custom.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.