Example Sentences

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Yet U.S. commercial airports remove snow manually with plows, brushes, blowers and shovels, along with chemical de-icers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

The use of NDAs by a church is legal at present, but many safeguarding experts say these agreements amount to gagging orders which can be weaponised against whistle blowers and complainants.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

The afternoon started with groundskeepers drying the field with leaf blowers, the first rainy game at the Coliseum in nine years.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

In the Slate Plus episode: The trouble with leaf blowers.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2025

Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson