Example Sentences

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Most of us have had someone we've loved who has died and may have been there holding their hand, might have kissed them on the head and left them for their last hours.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

That lone point might have seemed a consolation to the Kraken back in October or November, but on Monday it would have kissed the death right into them.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

How many people have kissed their beloved, embraced far-flung relatives or held squirming kids still for a picture beneath that 150-year-old banyan tree now turned to ash?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

He would have kissed me on the forehead, or on the cheek, and told me that this was why the world needed Arete, in the first place, for people like me.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

When my sister came with the lunch bucket, I could have kissed her, but I didn’t.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls