Example Sentences

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The festivities included a city parade, where one Dena sailor, speaking to an independent journalist, Samson Sagar, marveled at the flavor of biryani, an Indian rice dish he had sampled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

“What infuriated me was not that he had sampled my music but that he treated my son like that,” Puthli said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

She went back to the homes she had sampled from earlier.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023

The new study had sampled bats near that same location, at an abandoned mine that had yielded another close SARS-CoV-2 relative in 2013, and at other sites in nearly half of China’s 31 provinces.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 18, 2022

He waited in front of me until I had sampled the brew.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson