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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
They have wintered and passed the spring, and we are now favored with milk, which is a rarity and luxury here.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The naval vessels which have wintered here disperse to their several stations at that season, and invalids return to England or elsewhere.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
