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Example Sentences

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Hughie and Annie are expecting a daughter named Robin, for example — a reveal that left Quaid in tears.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Three decades after he left his bar job to return to football, the German now faces what could be the toughest test of his career - to bring the World Cup back to England.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

I don’t know what the plumber did, but he left me with a new issue.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Those same New York jobs, however, didn’t raise the kids’ later earnings; if anything they nudged them down slightly and left college-going untouched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

It was August now, almost a month since they had left home.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios