Example Sentences

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Legislators sealed the press houses’ fate in 2020.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

Despite funding these boards, the Office of Community Corrections gathers little information about their activities apart from an annual report, leaving state lawmakers who approve their funding in the dark about halfway houses' operations.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022

It follows that the houses’ foray into crypto may look like an attempt to elevate NFTs to the status of Monet and Rembrandt, but it’s actually much simpler: There’s a market.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2022

Before the agency agreed to provide the logs, Pew estimates that 15 houses’ worth of wood was being chipped each day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2022

O flowers blossoming In pleasant rows along the houses' stairs, You sprinkle each man's path with fragrances; And now and then, you bow, touched by the dress Of the young girl who, breeze-like, passes by.

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)