Example Sentences

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She was cold when she ought to have been caressing, stubborn when she might have yielded; and sarcasm never yet healed a wound.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

He might have been caressing a pet dog.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice