Example Sentences

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For example, this perfect John Cheever vignette: “I never found the tar-pits in Los Angeles, but I had a dish of Spam with raisin sauce at the Thrifty Drug Store.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2018

The contents of the tar-pits show that the animals named above were few in number, compared to the great beasts with which they were associated.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore