Example Sentences

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In four days Rachel Reeves will stand outside No 11 holding the red Budget box up for hordes of press snappers.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

The NFC also posted wins in the Closest To The Pin golf accuracy challenge, Dodgeball and Snap Shots, which featured centers and long snappers aiming at targets.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Long snappers are perhaps the least-protected group in football, but Rivera may have had good reason to hope Cheeseman turned it around.

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023

We found a market in a Cuban neighborhood in Miami, but my pathetic Spanishlessness wasn’t a problem; I just pointed to one of the shiny, clear-eyed yellowtail snappers nestled in ice.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

Even if the snappers weren’t biting, we’d stay until sunset, hoping to see the green flash on the horizon.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen