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Example Sentences
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They walked down a short hallway until they stood between two bright rooms.
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Coal wasn’t actually sure whether he was still hungry, but he figured that until he gathered what was what, he should probably say yes to everything.
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He followed Jackson up a creaky flight of stairs, past a bedroom where the girls argued over which mess was to be cleaned by whom, and into a room that looked like it had been Aaron’s alone until now.
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“It’s okay. I’ll hang out in the yard until bell,” he said.
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Coal stumbled down the driveway toward a busier street, staying low behind a parked car until he reached the sidewalk.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.