Example Sentences

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The plusses for the Lions at this point were minimal, but Scott Cummings was one of the few who advanced his claim for consideration for Saturday.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

As with the previous downward trend, there are plusses and minuses, namely higher production values per episode at the cost of time spent with the characters.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2022

But the plusses are not enough to merit the support of Dennis McFadden, a Los Angeles architect and a member of UC Santa Barbara’s design review committee for more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2021

It was a bold and controversial decision that reflected optimism about doing business in China, as well as a willingness to weigh plusses and minuses.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2021

On the third day, a Master Barnard brings me up a slate-full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick