Example Sentences

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Inventories are expected to have sliced off at least 0.7 percentage point from GDP growth last quarter.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2022

My own grandmother must have sliced her homemade kimchi hundreds of times.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2022

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to have sliced onions in this soup.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021

The U.S. fence, with its dense metal weave and its crown of concertina wire, is full of patches where determined individuals have sliced their way through with wire cutters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2017

“Bitter, you didn’t tell me this one was coming. I would have sliced five more plantains, had I known. These ones won’t be enough.”

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi