Example Sentences

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I can tell you from experience that Wembley is only a place for winners - it's not a nice place when you lose but we have sampled that and it made Sunday's victory even sweeter.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

Wildlife officials have sampled the bite wound to confirm that a mountain lion was responsible and to obtain a DNA profile of the animal.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022

That’s one reason they have had second and third lives: Singers have remade them, rappers have sampled them, filmmakers have featured them on soundtracks.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

Since the 2019 confirmation of CWD in Libby, Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials in the Panhandle region have sampled for CWD yearly, said Micah Ellstrom, the regional biologist in Coeur d’Alene.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2021

But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond