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Example Sentences

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"It's been a decade of legal challenges left right and centre, we are finally going to get some sort of report, but sadly we didn't get the public inquiry we asked for," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

The case, which concluded last week in a conviction for first-degree murder, has generated exactly the sort of fierce debate, outrage, celebration, and anguish that high-profile criminal trials often produce.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2026

Facility operators have contracts with local communities and companies to pick up their recycling, sort it, and sell it on the commodities market, sometimes sharing revenue with the local government or business.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

I appreciate that everyone brings their own experiences to it, and that sort of completes the piece for me.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

And yet, they’d sort of begun treating it like it was real, like they believed it.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix