Example Sentences

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As she and her group ventured into the mess, the horns might have been saluting her fortitude, or warning her to watch out.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2011

In it the dapper officers who have been saluting so punctiliously come to the President's bedroom in the middle of the night with a resignation for him to sign.

From Time Magazine Archive