Example Sentences
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Dust storms and spinning dust devils sweep across the surface, continually reshaping the landscape and driving processes that scientists are only beginning to fully understand.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Mojtaba will continue his father’s search for foreign devils.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
By comparison, nuclear creators aren’t gods, they’re devils, for their “creation” may end with the destruction of everything.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
And here we all are, five centuries later, masked just like Taius the First, waiting for the old devils line to fail so one of us can become the shiny new Emperor.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
