Example Sentences

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Whatever the reason, at these sporting events the parents are amped, the kids are hyped up and the officials might as well wear bulls-eyes on their jerseys rather than stripes.

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2015

To you I was a coward who could be frightened off by a tale of bulls-eyes, and broken pipe-stems at a Paris fair.

From Captain Macklin by Davis, Richard Harding

He brought some Barcelona nuts, red-streaked apples, small sweet yellow pears, pale pasty gingerbread, a whole quarter of a pound of peppermint bulls-eyes, and two bottles of ginger-beer.

From The Enchanted Castle by Nesbit, E. (Edith)