Example Sentences
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Oil-tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global crude and crude products flowed through in peacetime, has ground to a halt in recent days.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Ch Insp Kevin Lacks-Kelly, head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, tells the BBC that money had also flowed into the illegal sport through livestreams for gamblers in China on one or two occasions.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
These materials — included in “Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar,” at Roberts Projects through Aug. 22 — reveal an artist whose creations all flowed from the same restless imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The U.S. military had been working for weeks to preserve one of the agreement’s central goals: guiding commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil flowed before the conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
His skin, unmarked and smooth, radiated golden light, and his black hair flowed from under a helmet crowned with three pairs of horns.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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