Example Sentences
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Dispatched unwillingly to cover the official Groundhogging, Phil gets stuck, for some unknown cosmic reason, living the same day in the same small Pennsylvania town, over and over.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2021
Dispatched to Amsterdam to picture the then up-and-coming Oasis in 1994, Cummins was greeted by a lone Gallagher brother.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2020
Dispatched west to the burgeoning suburbs of Orange County with orders to build a new congregation from scratch in 1955, Schuller met his parishioners where they were — in their parked Chevys, Fords and Pontiacs.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2019
Dispatched manually deployed emergency personnel until the system was back up and running early Monday, AP reported.
From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2018
Dispatched an express to St. Mary's with letters for the sub-agency, missionaries, &c.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe