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Example Sentences

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The deal was reached shortly after workers there voted to authorize a strike, just days before the U.S. national team’s opening World Cup match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

His wife enlisted in the army shortly after him, and heads his unit's troop support service.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

More than two dozen personnel with the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a report of a hiker in grave medical condition off Nichols Canyon Road near Hollywood Boulevard shortly before 7 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Pre-season training starts on 6 July with the first friendly games, due to be announced in the coming days, shortly after.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Would leaving at three o’clock in the morning provide enough time to get to a public telephone and call me by shortly before five?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse