Example Sentences

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Things had been snowballing, fast, and I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t scared anymore.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

There had been a storm, and the trees looked as if they had been snowballing one another; but Susy had no eye for trees, and just then hardly cared for her pony.

From Little Prudy's Sister Susy by May, Sophie