Example Sentences

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Portents of apocalypse and furious resistance have coursed through the music of the Atlanta-based Algiers since its 2015 debut.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

But the aftereffects have coursed through a series of nearly nonstop elections — general, special elections, recall elections.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2021

The Blue Devils have coursed on through accusations of smugness and won 1,097 games under Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in the sport’s history at 1,170.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2021

It is difficult, for me, to express the feeling of finding the columns that mark your origins—seeing the names of the victims and imagining the terror and fear that must have coursed through those communities.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

All these streams have been so designated from the hue of their waters—muddy, with a pronounced tinge of red: this from the ochreous earth through which they have coursed, holding it in suspension.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne