Example Sentences

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You’re a regular trump, Webster,” cried Dick, too delighted to feel at all critical of the way in which the bookseller was extricating himself from his dilemma.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

The immortal spirit of love, which can neither die nor grow old, was extricating itself from the earth that clung to it.

From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle

He went outside and hailed his rescuer, who had found a piece of gum that he was extricating from some wrappings that indicated a rather dirty pocket.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy

Jonathan was extricating his line from an alder bush, and did not answer.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

With one hand He was pushing aside the branch of a tree, though a great thorn went right through it; and with the other He was extricating a sheep which was entangled in the thorns.

From From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry by Haslam, William