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Example Sentences
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Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine’s Day took a break from staring longingly into each other’s eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southland sky.
From Los Angeles Times
The party was already highly secretive before Xi took power in 2012, but his tilt toward autocratic rule has made Chinese politics even more opaque and sparked a resurgence in Pekingology.
"I was given the opportunity and I came out and took advantage of it."
From Barron's
Under former US president Bill Clinton, the black-and-white cat Socks took up residence in the White House from 1993 to 2001.
From Barron's
Moody’s took two hypothetical people, each earning $150,000 annually, to see whether the homeowner or investor came out ahead after 30 years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
