Example Sentences

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The Whitecaps are up for sale and MLS may accept a bid to move the team to Las Vegas because of a bleak financial forecast in Vancouver.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Yorath had spells as a player with Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, Vancouver Whitecaps and Bradford City, before finishing his playing career with a solitary appearance for Swansea City.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

After Tottenham, Yorath played for Vancouver Whitecaps before joining Bradford as player-coach.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

There were extenuating circumstances, however, such as the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the Whitecaps to split one season between sequesters in Canada and Portland, Ore., then start the next season quarantined in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Whitecaps roiled among the capsized boats and caused them and the docks to surge and roll, and the tops of the cabins and drum reels and gunnels were loaded down with snow.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson