Example Sentences

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Evilthorpe the Degenerate: I am quoting now from a speech of his from late January 2016: “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

"You might think I am quoting from one of my own speeches," said Wendell Willkie last week, reading this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will note the date line of this letter, and I am quoting from your issue of Sept.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am quoting it: Budapest My dear Karcsi: The fact that my song Gloomy Sunday is being played all over the world bewildered me�I do not know whether I should be happy over it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little of this was known then—I am quoting from later reports—and none of it was visible from the plane.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann