Example Sentences

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If I am hiking up a familiar path near my house in Turin and I think, “I am climbing a hill in Italy,” there is a brief whiff of foreign glamour.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2014

I will not even bring up the topic of cargo pants, though I will admit to wearing them when I am hiking for longer than 1.2 miles and am in the wilderness.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2014