Example Sentences

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Not only is the news very depressing these days, but it also is reported ungrammatically.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2018

I ungrammatically ended a sentence with a preposition.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2016

The concept of done lists has drawn enough support to beget an app called, straightforwardly if ungrammatically, I Done This.

From Slate • May 4, 2016

“Just last August, Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans seven years later, on the exact day of Hurricane Katrina,” he writes ungrammatically.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2012

Greg Lippmann wrote back hastily and ungrammatically, “Would you like to give us some other bonds that we can tell you what we will pay you.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis