Example Sentences

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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

But elegant glass designs stand out this season: beakers, distilling apparatus and bewitching ornamentation on the main houses’ doors and windows.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2022

“The guarantees are not great for the auction houses’ margins,” said Natasha Degen, chairwoman of art market studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

From New York Times • May 13, 2021

As we have before urged, and as we believe all genealogists having any competent acquaintance with the subject will agree, but few 'scions of great English houses' came to any of the colonies.

From Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson