Example Sentences
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Presided over by two friends and former colleagues of Shakespeare, who had died in 1616, the Folio ensured that lasting texts existed for “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night” and other cornerstones of Western literature.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023
Presided over by Tines, it was a sweetly dancing, full-ensemble jamboree — like both Ojai and AMOC, multiple, fractious and free.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022
Presided in 2019 over dispute between former White House Counsel Don McGahn and the House Judiciary Committee, which sought to enforce a subpoena against him.
From Fox News • Sep. 19, 2020
Presided over by the benevolently stern Dirty South trap-music stalwart T.I.,
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019
Though his head was profusely be-plaistered with meal, One sorrowful secret it could not conceal, That he drew his first breath when a two penny star Presided, and governed this son of the bar.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
