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Example Sentences

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It gets dark really early and then the cold started.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

They started college just a few months before ChatGPT splashed into the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

"He just came in, pulled the curtain back and started examining me," the 53-year-old said.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

And then she started talking about Marlene again, the young elephant she had almost adopted by now.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo