Example Sentences

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Traffic is a function of the price of oil; above $80 or $90 per barrel, and it could start to look displeasingly metropolitan.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2015

Enlightened intellectuals decided they knew best, and that metric could replace those displeasingly irrational, higgledy-piggledy systems of yore.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2014