Example Sentences

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One ground rule: I am excluding 2019 movies that were re-released earlier this year; including something as great as Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” might have made this game too easy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

I am excluding the kind of thinking on this point that tends toward the model of the wager.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

I am excluding of course beasts of draught—horses and bullocks—which are everywhere.

From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

From this general account I am excluding technical details and figures, and unfortunately a great deal is thereby lost.

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall

The quantity imported every year of, what shall I call it, raw gold, comes to something like �50,000,000, and here I am excluding what comes here by exchanges.

From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various