Example Sentences

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Since 1922, the shipwrights at this family-run company have hand-built grand yachts and dinghies, Navy patrol boats and rumrunning speedsters.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2018

We’ve progressed poetry-generation programs bounds ahead of the Eureka churning out stilted Latin hexameter, or even Racter offering up preposterous lines about a nasty, dull, rumrunning pig.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

The messages were short and written in five-letter combinations—very much like most rumrunning messages.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield