Example Sentences

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It was the first time she had summarized an opinion from the bench.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023

The committee’s staff had summarized the evidence against the President in several dozen thick black notebooks.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

In the recording, James is at first solicitous, telling the family she found the girl’s story — which her mother had summarized in an email to the principal earlier that day — “very disturbing.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018

Unlike those other tweets, however, @TEN_GOP had summarized that point neatly—even cleverly—and had found a lot of support, or so it seemed.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2018

He was not blind to the aspect of affairs which Tollemache had summarized so pithily.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis