Example Sentences
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First Danny and Amy find one another's homes, then they hit each other where they live, proverbially speaking.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
Defensive end Calijah Kancey’s cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Defensive end Calijah Kancey's cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2021
A judge would later find Chapman not guilty of manslaughter, but note sadly that “hindsight is proverbially better than foresight.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2021
I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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