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Example Sentences

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A rent of fifteen dollars was a dear price to pay—maybe too dear!

From Literature

“This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.”

From Los Angeles Times

As I slid “The Last Chairlift” onto the shelf with the others, I remembered that many years ago a dear friend of mine had studied with John Irving at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

From Los Angeles Times

The clue is in the question, my dear friend, as Lady Whistledown might say.

From MarketWatch

The clue is in the question, my dear friend, as Lady Whistledown might say.

From MarketWatch