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Example Sentences
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“Too many people that don’t know Mississippi think of it as a river, steamboats and some old guy strumming a banjo on a broken porch,” says Mr. Carswell.
Press reports say public protests have broken out in cities over the currency plunge and inflation.
Aerial news footage of the rupture showed giant plumes of dust rising from the broken pipeline, as well as a collapsed hillside nearby.
From Los Angeles Times
Photos from the scene showed the 36-year-old being helped out of the back seat of a black SUV, surrounded by what appears to be broken glass.
From BBC
Pictures circulating online showed a shirtless Joshua -- a British national of Nigerian heritage -- surrounded by what appeared to be broken window glass on the seats around him.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
