Example Sentences

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Blurted the captain: "I just wanted to thank you for turning a losing team into a winning one."

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Blurted Sarah: "I hate it," then curtsied again.

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Blurted an Army sergeant who fired the gun, "Good God, it's so simple I could manufacture it myself."

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Blurted the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, sponsor of Pastor Niem�ller's tour: "The record clearly shows that he repeatedly spoke against political aims of the Nazis as early as 1933."

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Blurted out by my yia, yia, beneath the echoing roof of Grand Trunk, toward Sourmelina’s cloche-covered ears.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides