Example Sentences

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To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders.

From Time Magazine Archive

And you have been sprinkling it on this midshipman's uniform?

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)