Example Sentences

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Aquatics team leader Ms Wood said the baby sea lions had been spending most of their time indoors but one had ventured into the nursery pool for its first swim last week.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

“There was no evidence that any of them had a weapon and no one I interviewed realized they had ventured onto a private enclave,” he said in a news release after the McCloskeys pleaded guilty.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Dias was one of many Portuguese explorers who had ventured out into the Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth century following Portugal’s capture of the Muslim port of Ceuta on the Moroccan coast in 1415.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Neither of my parents had ventured far from their childhood circumstances.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

A few, however, had ventured out into the field, to browse and play in the last of the sun.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams