Example Sentences

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There's a joyful hardscrabble gloss on every action, a feeling that all the days, weeks and months' worth of menial labor is slotting into a vast, harmonious machinery that's slowly spooling up.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2017

Green’s editing reinforces the sense that she is slotting the participants into her prefabricated plan.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2017