Example Sentences

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She’s not a critic writing “creatively” in the classic gamekeeper-turned-poacher mode; or rather, she’s combined gamekeeping and poaching into a single activity.

From Slate • May 4, 2012

Hagrid hadn’t been doing his gamekeeping duties because the dragon was keeping him so busy.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling