Example Sentences

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Since Twain's day, in the view of many newspaper editors, a plague of fireflies has filled the sky: neologisms proliferate and the rules of grammar have raveled badly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet The man who thinks he can at any time extract himself from any feminine entanglement that he may choose to have raveled, is a simpleton.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)