Example Sentences

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Vargas Llosa passed much of Latin America’s literary “Boom”—the years that made writers like García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes more than hemispherically famous—in Europe, teaching, translating, working in broadcast journalism, and publishing novel after novel.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

The eye-balls are nodules of iron-pyrites, cut hemispherically and highly polished, and are surrounded by circles of hard white shell, similar to that forming the teeth of the wooden mask.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

I am not speaking sarcastically, my point is not a chauvinistic one, not even hemispherically prideful.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward