Example Sentences

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Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023

By the time nesting has begun the trees have leafed out, and the nests are well concealed.

From Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas by Fitch, Henry S.

May has now opened, the hedges have leafed out and the trees are beginning lazily to unfold their leaves.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon