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Example Sentences

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I mean, you’ll think of someone like S. E. Hinton who wrote this extraordinary quartet of books, but then really stopped writing.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

A coworker urged her to not speak out again, she said, but she ended up losing her job after the contractor stopped calling her.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

So where there is good cybersecurity, this model would, in theory, hopefully be stopped.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

With crude exports from Iranian ports effectively stopped up, the country will be deprived of a large chunk of its oil revenues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

As we stopped to get the ladder, I said, “Dad, I wouldn’t have lived up all my wages, in the Dakotas. I’d have sent money back.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck