Example Sentences

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They’ve blotted their own copybooks by choosing to seek short-term relief at the expense of their long-term mission.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

Not doing it is a bit of a blot on the copybooks of both players.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Spencerian penmanship inscribed its elegant contours across the culture during its long reign among the ledgers and copybooks.

From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2017

But go back a few generations and you will find school copybooks full of diacritics: role was rôle, and so on.

From Time • Feb. 17, 2016

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,” he said dolefully.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott