Example Sentences

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Hong Kongers have legitimate questions about what went so lethally awry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Marc Cucurella's cross found Olmo in the box and he controlled it well to bypass a defender before finishing lethally in the fourth minute.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

On “Chains and Whips,” Pusha T opens up lethally: “The question marks block your blessings / There’s no tombstones in the desert / I know by now you get the message.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

"The air we breathe is lethally toxic," he wrote.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

The virus changed so as to kill fewer rabbits and to permit lethally infected ones to live longer before dying.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond