Example Sentences

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After many nights without sleep, we have given the original letter to our lawyer, who is instigating a libel suit for $500,000.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

At the present moment he is instigating the construction of an arena at Schildorn where spectacles after the ancient manner will be given.

From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette