Example Sentences

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It was like he was diagramming the whole thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Prince Ferdinand William Otto, who was diagramming the sentence, "Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in America," and doing it wrong, looked up in dismay.

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts