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Example Sentences

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We need not admire him politically to agree that Reagan was good at that sort of thing.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

“She can be sort of mean, and we don’t like her in the beginning. As the series grows, you really feel for her. That’s so hard to pull off, and she does it in spades.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

He will have more challenging days but that is how he bowls and it is a sort of consistency that England missed in the Ashes from their opening attack.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

As it turns out, this is exactly the sort of player the Knicks have in abundance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

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

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix