Example Sentences
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Net sales orders totaled 23,084 homes with an order value of $8.4 billion, which was flat with the year-earlier quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Global retail sales totaled $4.85 billion in the second quarter, up from $4.67 billion a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Related: My wife’s 2011 Ford Fiesta was totaled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
U.S. sports-drink sales totaled $10.2 billion for the 12 months that ended June 27, according to Nielsen data, up around 1% from the previous year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
It was a doe, so no antlers, but she was big, and she would have totaled the car, rolling right up the windshield and into us.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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