Example Sentences
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A woman named Mary Dare instructed her mother to go in person to the Union general and plead on her behalf.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Twenty-six women were also instructed to consume all food within a period of less than nine hours each day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
"You can clap now," a Downing Street official with a clipboard instructed the staff eagerly lining the halls of No 10 in the moments before the new prime minister walked in.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
"We are welcoming people from the peninsula who have been evacuated to our reception centres, and now we have been instructed to evacuate those centres as well," said Jean-Francois Garric, the town's deputy mayor.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
The archaeologists instructed the divers to dig tunnels under the boulders and to tie strong ropes around them several times.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
