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Example Sentences
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Make the cornbread crumbs: While the squash cooks, tear the cornbread into roughly pebble-size pieces by hand, or pulse it briefly in a food processor.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
As they descended the stairs, their over-10-story building in the worst-hit state of La Guaira fell to pieces around them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Instead, her dad taught her how the pieces were actually supposed to move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But that did not deter people - colanders, cereal boxes and pieces of paper were deployed to offer them a glimpse of the partial eclipse safely.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
His task is to blast the solid rock into pieces small enough for his crew to dig loose with hand tools and haul away in ox carts.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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