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Example Sentences

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We spelled each other down to the continual clang of the cowbell and wore the dictionary out, looking up meanings.

From Literature

Delighted to receive a dictionary of slang as a gift, he explored its application to his own interests.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That’s what it means. I looked up the word ‘hydrophobia’ in the dictionary and it said very plainly that anything going mad refuses to drink water.

From Literature

In the dictionary of the boy’s imagination, this house would be listed under the entry of real home.

From Literature

Tattered spy novels, texts on information theory and binary multipliers, and an old Polish-English dictionary.

From Literature