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Example Sentences

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In 2023, one of its employees lost a stack of documents after placing it on top of their car and forgetting it there before driving away.

From BBC

On top of that, Wu said, the Taiwan dollar was stronger than the won, yen and euro, meaning Taiwanese exports are more expensive.

From Barron's

"It's important to keep a high level of total physical activity, and on top of that, diversifying the types of activities may be more beneficial," said Dr Yang Hu, from Harvard School of Public Health, lead author of the study in the journal BMJ Medicine.

From BBC

Some kids held on to their animals but most didn’t, so there were cats up in the trees and on top of telephone poles, and dogs running off down the street, barking...and the Herdmans’ cat in the middle of it all, tearing around the playground, hissing and spitting and shedding flakes of whitewash.

From Literature

Under the law, domestic terrorism involves activities that are “dangerous to human life,” that are in violation of federal criminal law—and, on top of that, have the intent to intimidate a population, or to affect the “conduct” or “policy” of a government by “intimidation or coercion.”

From Slate