Example Sentences
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There, the court disagreed with the Nixes, ruling that people neither prepare nor eat tomatoes like fruits — and that they should be taxed accordingly.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017
Once a series of largely local or regional markets, a new class of national wholesalers, such as the Nixes, were beginning to introduce urban consumers to produce from much farther away.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017
Koslofski also credited the Nixes for helping develop into the player that was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1984.
From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2015
Dressed only in nightclothes, the Nixes watched their trailer burn, taking with it all their possessions including furniture, clothing and family photographs.
From Forbes • Nov. 6, 2014
This German paganism was eminently fanciful—it peopled the earth, air and sea with supernatural beings—the rivers had their Undines, the caverns their Gnomes, the woods their Sprites, and the ocean its Nixes.
From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell
