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Example Sentences
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The mayor's office said in a statement that the monument, which overlooked the waterway spanning Bridge of the Americas, had structural damage that posed a "risk."
From Barron's
The Kings came out of the NHL’s three-day holiday break having lost six of their last seven, scoring just 11 goals over that span.
From Los Angeles Times
Strips of text spelling “freestyle,” “defects” and “willpower”—each in a unique color and font—span one corner.
Over vast spans of time, some of this water was slowly returned to the surface through volcanic and magmatic activity.
From Science Daily
Lin noted that most hurricane categories span a range of about 20 knots, making a separate Category 6 more consistent with how storms are classified.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.