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Example Sentences
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Her memoir, which was based in part on Burden’s popular New York Times Modern Love essay “Was I Married to a Stranger?”
From Los Angeles Times
“Don’t be selfish, Lexie. The business, which is going to pay for our rent and groceries, is obviously more important than your swim, or your little essay. Get your priorities straight.”
From Literature
The directors take a visual essay approach, contrasting Walden Pond and its woods and the rivers Thoreau rowed with sped-up footage of our crazy modern world — which can be a little on the nose.
From Los Angeles Times
Together, they create a documentary that looks like a moodboard colliding with a fashion archivist’s YouTube video essay.
From Salon
The neck has long been a “dead giveaway” of one’s age, Nora Ephron wrote in her collection of essays, “I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
