Example Sentences

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On Thursday, Colonel Michael Edmonson, head of the Louisiana state police, denied earlier reports that Few had been reversing his car toward the officers, who then had to defend themselves.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015

To the twins there was hidden justice in the fact that the milk van had been reversing.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy