Example Sentences

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Meraz said his members are “not concerned with the national stuff, they want to do the local and state law” — but ICE is looping them in anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

Her narratives are elusive and bewildering, and half the fun of reading them is looping around, testing the walls, engaging and puzzling out their labyrinthine structures.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2022

While the Judge is looping the noose over Punch’s head, his white wig falls off: It’s the Devil himself!

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019

It is slightly tarnished and engraved with something that the boy thinks might be words in Latin, but the script is looping and flourished and he cannot make them out.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern