Example Sentences

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He had been slicing apart the liver, one of the favorite nesting sites of Ebola.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

On the table lay a loaf of bread—the colored woman had been slicing it when he knocked—and in the pan sizzled a dozen slices of bacon.

From Tom of the Raiders by Bishop, Austin

Judy had gone to the kitchen for a moment to bring to the fore the smoked tongue that P�re Tricot had been slicing in those paper-thin slices that he alone knew how to accomplish.

From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell