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Example Sentences

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All the guys were into sports; I tried doing that growing up, and I just hated it and never felt like I was good at it or fit into those boys and what they were doing.

From Los Angeles Times

"But if you can get them early enough and teach them respect for women, I think that's so important to get into schools… and the more I look at it, it is the most important thing we can do now."

From BBC

“She developed a deeply intimate relationship with the Pacific Ocean not by studying it or by looking at it, but by getting into it — again and again and again, on choppy days and gloriously calm days, logging what I can only guess are thousands of miles.”

From Los Angeles Times

Someone glancing at it would see $811 million of revenue over the last four quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Until then, he says, he will keep at it himself: "This is my ideal. If you have this ideal, you must persist. You can't not."

From BBC