Example Sentences

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The ship, which researchers had linked to Iranian oil transfers, had been sailing under a Gabonese flag.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The remains were unidentified until the Sheriff’s Department announced this week it had linked the skull to the 1987 disappearance and death of a 48-year-old woman from Trinity County.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

At Northeastern, where about 100 protesters had linked arms in a circle around a half-dozen tents on a lawn known as the Centennial Common, it was unclear exactly who was directing the police response.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2024

On Monday Israel's Shin Bet security agency, Israeli police and the Israeli military said Ahmed Dawabsha, 21, had been arrested overnight for Benjamin Achimeir's murder and had "linked himself to the attack".

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024

I had linked myself to an unpopular person.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli