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Example Sentences
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Halfway through the movie, to ward off full-scale war with the Philistines, David volunteers to engage in single combat with the enemy’s champion: an oversize fellow named Goliath.
A few days earlier the party pulled off a surprise victory in a council by-election in the ward of Whitburn and Blackburn in West Lothian.
From BBC
He stayed in his truck outside the affordable senior complex, trying to keep an eye on things: warding off looters, putting out ember flare-ups, responding to flooding when the building’s sprinklers finally burst back on.
From Los Angeles Times
The company that makes the baby blankets External link used to wrap newborns in delivery wards across the U.S. has just become one of the largest initial public offerings in years.
From Barron's
The company that makes the baby blankets External link used to wrap newborns in delivery wards across the U.S. is going public this week, in what could be the largest initial public offering in years.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
