Example Sentences

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Jeremy Gulban was trying to pause, after a spree of acquiring newspapers in small towns where Wall Street firms had milked their local papers dry.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

That has provoked accusations from the couple's critics, especially on social media, that they had milked the incident for their own ends.

From Reuters • May 18, 2023

“I had milked cows before,” she recalled in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press.

From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2015

“I had milked cows before,” she recalled in a 2009 interview with the Associated Press.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2015

The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell