Example Sentences

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Personals, with their economical writing, are by their nature poetic, and rise to the operatic in the rhythmic and lyrical speech of the junior interrogators.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

His first experiment with publicity was helping Keiko Ibi, then a film grad student, when she got nominated for a documentary short Oscar for “The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021

“With dating apps like Tinder, the queer people are an afterthought. It’s not built into their kind of binary system,” said Kell Rakowski, the founder of Personals and Lex.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

Mike Stabile, the No on 60 spokesman, said the complaint is mistaken, and the money actually comes from a completely different company, Global Personals LLC, which is based in Miami.

From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2016

The trouble was that my advertisement went into a column headed "Business Personals," along with a lot of manicure and massage advertising.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor