Example Sentences

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No review has summed up the appeal of Mr. Mallet’s two Simplissime titles as succinctly as this one, from a customer on Amazon.fr:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 13, 2016

British theologian Steve Holmes has summed it up more concisely: Liberal Christianity is “Christianity that is acutely alive to the challenges to belief coming from modern philosophy”—from experience as it is lived.

From Slate • May 15, 2016

Jeremy Corbyn addressing the pro-refugee rally in Parliament Square Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images The Economist’s Jeremy Cliffe has summed up what the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader means in 20 tweets.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2015

No one has summed up this doomed but necessary mission better than W. H. Auden in his poem "The Novelist."

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012

In fact, the author has summed up the sins of all the Backfisch tribe, and made a single Backfisch guilty of them.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.