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The Leinbergers have wintered since 2010 in Florida, and were eager to also use the occasion to go on a cruise.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 30, 2017
That’s when the “neo-tropical warblers” who have wintered in Mexico and Central America start making their way northward for the summer breeding season, clad in their spring plumage.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2013
Debutantes from the U. S. who have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we hadn't got married, I shouldn't have wintered at Pau.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
You would think cattle would starve there, but all the cattle that have wintered here are fat now and they say here that cattle brought from any other part will improve in size and quality.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
