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Example Sentences
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However, listening to Saylor make his sales pitch to the men filling the expo hall, I understood why people kept giving him money.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
It was surrounded by fans and the Fox crew kept trying to stoke the rivalry, while the Kansas and ASU bands battled it out on Wembley Way and on the pitch before kick-off.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lynn got on the radio and, as the other three choppers kept their position, Lynn asked him to stick to “one of the corners.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Then, as we carried out different evolutionary analyses, they kept pointing in the same direction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
He’d not kept track of time as meticulously as Brickbane, who’d scored every new moon with a notch in his walking stick.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
