Example Sentences

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“We’re going to have fewer Barbara Lees, Maxine Waterses and Karen Basses on the coast, compared to more folks getting elected inland and outside of L.A. and the Bay Area,” Bain said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2021

In one deal, in 1984, he made a $400 million profit when Texaco bought back shares from the Basses after Mr. Rainwater had hinted at a takeover bid.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015

Having been drilling for decades in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, the Basses now find some of their oldest oilfields smack dab in the middle of the new Permian Basin boom.

From Forbes • Sep. 29, 2014

Basses like Fritz Hübner and Siegfried Vogel, many years his senior, as well as Mr. Pape, who is only a year older but blossomed much sooner.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2011

In 1786, six months after the death of her father, she married one of her own workmen, named Rougon, "a rough-hewn peasant from the Basses Alpes."

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G