Example Sentences

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Flashlights, batteries and tape for windows were flying off shelves, but Gurnon said people were worried about flooding and had been scooping up sump pumps as well.

From Reuters • Aug. 26, 2011

This officer, Claude was thinking, was a very different sort of being from the poor prisoners they had been scooping up like tadpoles from the cellars.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert