Maxine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Big bugs,” Gladys told Maxine Cooper’s little brother, Donald.
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Of course that was the end of Donald’s lunch, but at least, Maxine said, it was just a day-old bologna sandwich and some carrot sticks so they probably wouldn’t do that again.
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After that they began to show up every morning at Maxine’s bus stop, looking sneaky and dangerous, like some outlaw gang about to hold up the stagecoach.
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“But they don’t do anything,” Maxine said, looking worried.
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It scared Donald, all right, and after three or four days he wouldn’t even come out the door, so Maxine stood on her front porch and yelled, “My mother says for you to go home!”
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