Example Sentences

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But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2019

My lads, we have diced With death to-day, and won!

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

I should have run through them, lad—I should have diced them away years ago—and I am not sure but that their forfeiture has been a benefit to you.

From When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)