Example Sentences

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To honor their first and most generous benefactor, who has poured an estimated $250,000 into the effort, the researchers had been naming their trees after him.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

I wanted Leon to slip to the back door and make the dumb-bell—that's what he called it; if I had been naming it I would have called it the thunder-bell—go; but he wouldn't.

From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene