Example Sentences

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“Yes, we’re all right,” Papa said, “but the old man has a bad ankle. It looks like we’ll have to cany him out.”

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could cany, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to keep up.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Why, he’d even cany out our knives, forks, and spoons.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

He could cany a burning stick and build a signal and perhaps attract attention.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

Tyrion pitied the slaves who had to cany him.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin