Example Sentences

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Down in the tunnels, workers sorted the remains of the dead, filing them by bones into space-efficient ricks and stacks.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019

Burnley’s welcome back to the Premier League ends in encouraging defeat, while Monday Night Football ends an hour later with no obvious ricks or gaffes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2014

He never imposes himself on his characters, never plays ricks on them or the reader.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iv�n hitched his mare, and went with the girl to haul away the ricks.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf