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Example Sentences
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So many moments, so many stories that will be told and retold among this generation of Dodgers fans and passed down to the next.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Hundreds of people passed by, carrying shopping bags or stopping to take selfies with the Art Institute’s iconic lion statues.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Back at the police department conference table in 2025, Detectives Stafford and Evans passed case documents back and forth.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
As his craft passed behind the far side, contact with the pair on the lunar surface, as well as with mission control, vanished for 48 minutes.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
If Miss Myrt had grabbed for that pointer and hung on to take it with her to the Schoolhouse in the Sky, I’d have passed right out on the spot.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.