Example Sentences

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The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere on a neighboring thoroughfare a scissors-grinder was punctuating the silence with the musical ding—dang—dong of bells.

From The Turner Twins by Barbour, Ralph Henry